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British Author Biographies

The focus here is on the memorable and the unusual rather than the important or useful. (In other words, don't come here to study for that big English exam.)

PoetPlaywrightEssayist*JournalistNovelist
Sir Walter "the Unfortunate" Raleigh 1552-1618 Poet
Essayist

Christopher "James Bond" Marlowe 1564-1593 Poet Playwright


John "Un-" Donne 1572-1631 Poet
Essayist

Ben "Origin Unknown" Jonson 1572-1637 Poet Playwright


John "the Lady" Milton 1608-1674 Poet



Daniel "The True-Born Englishman" Defoe 1660-1731 Poet
Essayist Journalist Novelist
Jonathan "Isaac Bickerstaff" Swift 1667-1745 Poet
Essayist
Novelist
Henry "Feilding" Fielding 1708-1754
Playwright Essayist
Novelist
William "New Age" Blake 1757-1827 Poet



Robert "Auld Lang Syne" Burns 1759-1796 Poet



William "The Interminable" Wordsworth 1770-1850 Poet
Essayist

Samuel Taylor "Estese" Coleridge 1772-1834 Poet Playwright Essayist Journalist
Jane "Persuasion" Austen 1775-1817



Novelist
George "Don Juan" Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824 Poet



John "Doctor" Keats 1795-1821 Poet



Elizabeth "Ba" Barrett Browning 1806-1861 Poet



Alfred, "Eccentric" Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 Poet Playwright


William "Snob" Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863

Essayist Journalist Novelist
Charles "David Copperfield" Dickens 1812-1870
Playwright Essayist
Novelist
Robert "The Obscure" Browning 1812-1889 Poet Playwright


Charlotte "Jane Eyre" Brontë 1816-1854 Poet


Novelist
Branwell "The Forgotten" Brontë 1817-1848 Poet



Emily "The Strange" Brontë 1818-1848 Poet


Novelist
Anne "Agnes Grey" Brontë 1820-1849 Poet


Novelist
Charles "Lewis Carroll" Dodgson 1832-1898 Poet
Essayist
Novelist

* This category also includes general nonfiction, such as Wordsworth's travel guide and Donne's sermons.


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