| Austen,
Jane |
(1775-1817
) Novelist. Her six books
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma,
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion mainly cover the Regency obsession with
finding a life partner. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
– Pride and Prejudice opening lines.
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Beeton, Isabella (Mrs)
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(1837-65) Author of "Everyday
Cookery", considered a masterwork in the basics of cookery and home
management. |
| Bronte Family. |
Family of
writers, children of the Rev
Patrick Bronte, vicar of Haworth, West Yorkshire. Charlotte (1816-55)
{Jane Eyre 1847} Emily
(1818-48)
Anne (1820-49) Branwell (1817-48) |
Brooke,
Rupert
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(1887-1915) Poet, born Rugby,
Warwickshire. One of the Anti-War poets of WWI. "If I should die, think only this of me.
That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England"
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Byron,
George
Gordon, 6th Lord Byron
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(1788-1824) Aristocratic poet
and hellraiser. Notorious womaniser. Died after going to
Greece to help fight the war of independence against the Turks.
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Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor
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(1772-1834) Romantic poet. Best
known for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.
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| Dickens,
Charles |
(1812
– 1870) Novelist, and social
commentator. Wrote many well-known books (eg Oliver Twist 1839 A
Christmas Carol 1844 David Copperfield 1850 Great Expectations 1861)
that dealt with the conditions facing the under classes of his day. |
George
Eliot
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(1819
-1880) Novelist. Real name
Mary Ann Evans but took the name George Eliot because it was frowned
upon for ladies to write. It was one of several aliases she used
throughout her lifetime. Works include Adam Bede 1859 Mill on the Floss
1860 Silas Marner 1861 Middlemarch 1872 Daniel Deronda 1876 |
| Glasse,
Hannah. |
Author, in 1747,
of The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, one of the first cookery
books published in England. Noted for its line "First catch your hare",
which was not, as commonly thought, in Beeton's
cookery book. |
Gray,
Thomas.
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(1716-1771) Poet.
Author of Elegy
in a Country Churchyard. |
| Jerome, Jerome K. |
(1859-1927) Writer. Born
Walsall 1859.
Famous
for "Three Men in a Boat.
To Say Nothing of the Dog"(1889)
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Johnson,
Samuel
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(1709 - 1784) Writer and
dictionary
compiler
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| Lear, Edward. |
(1812-1888)
Artist and writer, best known for his Book
of Nonsense. |
| Masefield, John |
(
1878
- 1967). Published 1902
"Salt-Water Ballads"
containing the poem "Cargoes" |
Owen,
Wilfred
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(1893-1918) Anti-war poet of
WWI. Best known for "Dulce et Decorum"
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Potter, Beatrix
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(1866-1943)
Author, artist and Lake District landowner famous for children's
stories about animals. Her first was about Peter Rabbit who
was originally described in a letter in 1893. |
Sterne, Laurence.
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(1713
-1768
) Author of "The
Life
and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", written while working as a
clergyman at Coxwold, North Yorkshire (1761). |
Tennyson,
Alfred (Lord)
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(1809 - 1892) English poet. Was
Poet Laureate. Works include "The Kraken" (1830) "The Lady of
Shalott"(1842) "Charge of the Light Brigade"
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| Thoreau, Henry David. |
(1817
- 1862)
Author of Civil
Disobedience. "That government is
best which governs least". |
Whitman,
Walt
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(1819 -1892) Poet. Works include
"Spontaneous Me" and "I Sing the Body Electric"
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Wilde, Oscar
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(1854-1900)
Writer, playwright, novelist, poems and short stories. Notorious
for his sexuality after being found guilty of gross indecency and
imprisoned in Reading Gaol for homosexuality.
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Wordsworth, William
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(1770-1850) English Romantic
Poet . Also known as one of the Lakeland Poets. Probably best known for
the poem "The Daffodils". "I
wandered lonely as a cloud"
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