British Writers - From the United Kingdom Great Britain England
Read more about British writers, from the United Kingdom, Great Britain, including: Joseph Addison, Matthew Arnold, Jane Austen, Lord Francis Bacon, Bede, Apra Behn, William Blake, the Brontë sisters, Robert Browning, and others.
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- Addison, Joseph
- Aikin, Anna Laetitia
- Akenside, Mark
- Aldington, Richard
- Arnold, Matthew
- Aubrey, John
- Auden, W.H.
- Austen, Jane
- Bacon, Francis
- Bede, the Venerable
- Behn, Aphra
- Beowulf author (c680-c800)
- Blackwood, Algernon
- Blake, William
- Bronte, Anne
- Bronte, Charlotte
- Bronte, Emily
- Brooke, Rupert
- Browne, Sir Thomas
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Browning, Robert
- Bunyan, John
- Burke, Edmund
- Burney, Fanny
- Butler, Samuel
- Byron, George Gordon - Lord
- Campion, Thomas
- Carroll, Lewis
- Cavendish, Margaret
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
- Christie, Agatha
- Churchill, Winston
- Cleland, John
- Coleridge, Samuel
- Collins, Wilkie
- Congreve, William
- Daniel, Samuel
- Darwin, Charles
- Defoe, Daniel
- Dickens, Charles
- Donne, John
- Dryden, John
- Eliot, George
- Elizabeth I
- Etherege, George
- Fielding, Henry
- Flecker, James Elroy
- Forster, E.M.
- Gay, John
- Godwin, William
- Goldsmith, Oliver
- Gray, Thomas
- Hardy, Thomas
- Herbert, George
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Housman, Alfred Edward
- Huxley, Aldous
- Johnson, Samuel
- Jonson, Ben
- Keats, John
- Kempe, Margery
- Killigrew, Anne
- Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
- Kyd, Thomas
- Lamb, Charles
- Langland, William
- Lawrence, D.H.
- Lovelace, Richard
- Malory, Sir Thomas
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Marvell, Andrew
- Meredith, George
- Mill, John Stuart
- Milne, Alan Alexander
- Milton, John
- More, Sir Thomas
- Naipaul, V.S.
- Orwell, George
- Owen, Wilfred
- Shakespeare, William
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred
- Tolkien, J.R.R.
- Walpole, Horace
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Wells, H.G.
- Wodehouse, P.G.
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wordsworth, William
- Wroth, Mary
- Wyatt, Thomas
- Wycherley, William
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