People in the category Writers (1500- 1900)

Authors 1 till 100 of 147.

• Addison, Joseph
  English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719 95
• Alcott, Louisa May
  American Author 1832-1888 16
• Andersen, Hans Christian
  Deens poet and fairy tale writer 1805-1875 4
• Aretino, Pietro
  Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist  2
• Arndt, Ernst Moritz
  German nationalist historian, writer, and poet 1769-1860 4
• Arnold, George
  American author and poet 1834-1865 1
• Ascham, Roger
  English scholar and didactic writer 1515-1568 1
• Aubrey, John
  English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer 1626-1697 1
• Austen, Jane
  English writer 1775-1817 72
• Balzac, Honoré de
  French writer 1799-1850 32
• Banneker, Benjamin
  African-American almanac author, and surveyor  5
• Barca, Pedro Calderón de la
  dramatist, poet and writer 1600-1681 5
• Beaumarchais, Pierre de
  French playwriter 1732-1799 8
• Beaumont, Francis
  English writer and poet 1584-1616 8
• Behn, Aphra
  English playwright, poet and translator 1640-1689 9
• Blair, Hugh
  Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician 1718-1800 5
• Borrow, George
  English writer of novels and travel books 1803-1881 7
• Brontë, Anne
  British writer 1820-1849 26
• Brontë, Emily
  British writer, poet 1818-1848 21
• Bruyère, Jean de la
  French writer 1645-1696 70
• Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
  English writer and poet 1803-1873 54
• Bunyan, John
  British writer 1628-1688 12
• Burton, Robert
  English clergyman and writer 1577-1640 17
• Burton, Sir Richard
  British explorer, writer, soldier, ethnologist, poet and diplomat 1821-1890 7
• Buxton, Charles
  British writer 1823-1871 7
• Carlyle, Thomas
  Scottish writer and historicus 1795-1881 229
• Carroll, Lewis
  British Writer, Mathematician 1832-1898 24
• Cervantes, Miguel de
  Spanish writer 1547-1616 88
• Chamfort, Nicolas
  French writer, journalist and playwright 1741-1794 43
• Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
  American author and clergyman 1814-1880 19
• Chapman, George
  English writer and poet 1559-1634 6
• Chateaubriand, Francois René de
  French writer, politician, diplomat and historian 1768-1848 6
• Chesterfield, Lord
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) 1694-1773 107
• Child, Lydia M.
  American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor 1802-1880 11
• Cibber, Colley
  English actor-manager, playwright and poet 1671-1757 5
• Clarke, James Freeman
  American theologian and author 1810-1888 6
• Collodi, Carlo
  Italian author, humorist and journalist 1826-1890 11
• Colton, Charles Caleb
  English writer 1780-1832 115
• Cook, Eliza
  English author and poet 1818-1889 5
• Corneille, Pierre
  French playwright 1606-1684 21
• Defoe, Daniel
  English writer 1660-1731 13
• Dickens, Charles
  English writer 1812-1870 109
• Disraeli, Benjamin
  English statesman and writer 1804-1881 174
• Dostojewski, Fjodor M.
  Russisch writer 1821-1881 24
• Douglass, Frederick
  African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer 1818-1895 8
• Drummond, Henry
  Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer 1851-1897 8
• Dryden, John
  English poet and playwright 1631-1700 71
• Dumas, Alexandre
  French writer 1802-1870 18
• Faber, Frederick W.
  English hymn writer and theologian 1814-1863 5
• Farquhar, George
  Irish playwright 1677-1707 11
• Felltham, Owen
  English writer 1602-1668 5
• Fénelon, François
  French Writer 1651-1715 13
• Field, Eugene
  American writer 1850-1895 3
• Fielding, Henry
  English writer 1707-1754 42
• Flaubert, Gustave
  French writer 1821-1880 5
• Fontaine, Jean de la
  French writer 1621-1695 31
• Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de
  French author  1657-1757 17
• Fuller, Margaret
  American writer 1810-1850 10
• Fuller, Thomas
  English preacher and writer 1608-1661 114
• Gaskell, Elizabeth
  British writer 1810-1865 10
• Gay, John
  British playwright and poet 1688-1732 31
• Giles, Henry
  British Unitarian minister and writer 1809-1882 5
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
  German writer and poet 1749-1832 321
• Goldoni, Carlo
  Italian playwright and librettist 1707-1793 3
• Goldsmith, Oliver
  Irish writer and poet 1728-1774 85
• Grant, Anne
  Scottish poet and author 1755-1838 6
• Haliburton, Thomas C.
  Canadian jurist, writer 1796-1865 10
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  American short story writer 1804-1864 32
• Hazlitt, William
  English writer 1778-1830 140
• Helps, Sir Arthur
  English writer and dean of the Privy Council 1813-1875 7
• Heywood, John
  English writer, playwright and poet 1497-1580 6
• Hill, Aaron
  English dramatist and writer 1685-1750 21
• Holland, Josiah Gilbert
  American Author 1819-1881 17
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  American writer and poet 1809-1894 139
• Hood, Thomas
  English poet, author and humorist 1799-1845 6
• Hugo, Victor
  French writer 1802-1885 78
• Hunt, Leigh
  British poet, essaywriter 1784-1859 10
• Irving, Washington
  American writer 1783-1859 28
• Jerrold, Douglas William
  British Humorist, Playwright 1803-1857 18
• Johnson, Ben
  English playwright and poet 1572-1637 14
• Johnson, Samuel
  English writer 1709-1784 385
• Joubert, Joseph
  French writer 1754-1824 43
• Karr, Alphonse
  French writer and editor of Le Figaro 1808-1890 13
• Kingsley, Charles
  British writer 1819-1875 11
• L'Estrange, Roger
  English pamphleteer and author 1616-1704 4
• Lichtenberg, G. C.
  German writer and physicist 1742-1799 121
• Mandeville, Bernard
  British writer and artist 1670-1733 21
• Martineau, Harriet
  British writer, social criticus 1802-1876 11
• Mazzini, Giuseppe
  Italian writer 1805-1872 7
• Melville, Herman
  American author 1819-1891 24
• Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of
  French revolutionary and writer 1749-1791 6
• Moliere
  French playwriter (ps. of J. B. Poquelin) 1622-1673 25
• More, Hannah
  British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist 1745-1833 11
• Morris, William
  British artist, writer 1834-1896 6
• Musset, Alfred de
  French writer 1810-1857 9
• Nerval, Gerard De
  French writer, poet 1808-1855 6
• Novalis
  German poet, writer 1772-1801 10
• Oliphant, Margaret
  British writer, historian 1828-1897 9
• Pike, Albert
  American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason 1809-1891 17
• Poe, Edgar Allan
  American poet, writer and critic 1809-1845 35

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