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A. J. Cronin
A. J. Cronin, born Archibald Joseph Cronin, was a Scottish physician turned novelist whose 1937 bestseller The Citadel is credited with contributing to the founding of Britain's National Health Service.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist and essayist, author of Brave New World; moved from satirical novels of ideas to mysticism, mescalin writings, and Hollywood screenwriting.
Amelia Edwards
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831-1892), English novelist, travel writer, and Egyptologist; author of A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877), co-founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund (1882), and benefactor of UCL's first Egyptology chair.
Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë (1820–1849), youngest Brontë sister, English novelist and poet writing as Acton Bell; author of Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), suppressed by Charlotte after her death.
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), English Victorian novelist and Post Office official; author of 47 novels, the Barsetshire and Palliser novel-sequences, and the pillar box; famed for his 5:30 a.m., 250-words-per-quarter-hour writing routine.
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett (Enoch Arnold Bennett, 1867-1931), English novelist, playwright and journalist of the Staffordshire Potteries, author of The Old Wives' Tale, the Clayhanger trilogy and the Five Towns fiction, attacked by Virginia Woolf and later reappraised.
Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), Hungarian-British novelist and science writer, author of Darkness at Noon and The Act of Creation; communism, Spanish Civil War imprisonment, parapsychology bequest at Edinburgh.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens, 1812–1870) was an English novelist and social critic, the best-selling author of his day; his works include Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol.
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an Anglican clergyman, novelist, and Christian Socialist who served Eversley parish for life, wrote The Water-Babies and Alton Locke, and became Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in 1860.
Charles Langbridge Morgan
Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) was a British novelist, dramatist, and drama critic who wrote eleven novels and served as chief theater critic of The Times from 1926 to 1939.
Charles Reade
Charles Reade (1814–1884) was an English novelist and dramatist whose fiction attacked Victorian social abuses; his historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is regarded as his masterpiece.
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), English Victorian novelist and poet, sister of Emily and Anne; wrote Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley, and Villette as Currer Bell; subject of Gaskell's 1857 biography.
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), British-born novelist and diarist, U.S. citizen from 1946, author of Goodbye to Berlin, The Berlin Stories (basis of Cabaret), A Single Man, and Christopher and His Kind.
D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, poet, and critic born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire; author of Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover; repeatedly censored, exiled, and later revived by F. R. Leavis.
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731), born Daniel Foe, English novelist, journalist, pamphleteer, and political agent; author of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year, and Roxana.
Dinah Craik
Dinah Maria Craik, née Mulock (1826–1887), was an English novelist and poet whose bestselling novel John Halifax, Gentleman (1856) made her one of the era's most popular writers.
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster, full name Edward Morgan Forster, was an English novelist whose works include A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India.
Eliza Haywood
Eliza Haywood (née Fowler, c. 1693–1756) was an English novelist, playwright, actress, and periodical publisher whose debut novel Love in Excess was a 1719 bestseller.
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer of The Last September, The Death of the Heart, and the wartime London novel The Heat of the Day; MI5 reporter, ARP warden, and a modernist often compared with Virginia Woolf.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), English Victorian novelist and biographer, wife of Unitarian minister William Gaskell of Manchester; wrote Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Ruth, and The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) was an English novelist and children's writer whose best-known books, Green Dolphin Country and The Little White Horse, sold nearly ten million copies by 1959.
Ellen Wood (novelist)
Ellen Wood, known as Mrs Henry Wood, was an English novelist and magazine editor whose bestseller East Lynne (1861) made her a founder of Victorian sensation fiction alongside Wilkie Collins.
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet of Haworth, Yorkshire; published Wuthering Heights (1847) and poems as Ellis Bell, revealed in the 1850 second edition; died of tuberculosis at 30.
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh (1903-1966), English satirical novelist and Catholic convert, author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, Brideshead Revisited, and the Sword of Honour trilogy.
Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer, 1873–1939), British modernist novelist, poet, critic, and editor, author of The Good Soldier and Parade's End, collaborator of Joseph Conrad, founder of the English Review and the transatlantic review.
Frances Brooke
Frances Brooke (1724–1789) was an English novelist and playwright whose epistolary novel The History of Emily Montague, written in Quebec, is often called the first Canadian novel.
Frances Burney
Frances Burney, known as Fanny and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist and diarist whose 1778 novel Evelina paved the way for Jane Austen.
Frances Sheridan
Frances Sheridan, born Frances Chamberlaine (1724–1766), was an Irish novelist and dramatist, author of the epistolary novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761) and mother of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Frank O'Connor
Frank O'Connor was the pen name of Michael Francis O'Donovan (1903–1966), an Irish writer from Cork best known for short stories and memoirs that established the Irish short story as a major genre.
George du Maurier
George du Maurier, born in Paris in 1834, was a British Punch cartoonist and novelist whose best-selling 1894 novel Trilby introduced the character Svengali to literature.