A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
DeceasedEdit
AEdit
- Abbott, Jacob
- Abbott, John Stevens Cabot
- À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
- Abercrombie, John
- Abercrombie, Patrick
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Lord
- Adamnan, St.
- Adams, Francis, W.L.
- Addison, Joseph
- Adolphus, John
- Ælfred
- Ælfric
- Aguilar, Grace
- Aikin, John
- Aikin, Lucy
- Ainger, Alfred
- Ainsworth, William Harrison
- Aird, Thomas
- Akenside, Mark
- Alcott, Louisa M.
- Alcuin or Ealhwine
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
- Alesius, Alexander
- Alexander, Mrs. Cecil F.
- Alford, Henry
- Alison, Archibald
- Alison, Sir Archibald
- Allen, Charles Grant
- Allingham, William
- Allston, Washington
- Amory, Thomas
- Anderson, Alexander
- Andrewes, Lancelot
- Anstey, Christopher
- D'Arblay, Frances
- Arbuthnot, John
- Argyll, George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of
- Armstrong, John, M.D.
- Arnold, Matthew
- Arnold, Sir Edwin
- Arnold, Thomas
- Ascham, Roger
- Asgill, John
- Ashmole, Elias
- Asser
- Atherstone, Edwin
- Atterbury, Francis
- Aubrey, John
- Austen, Jane
- Austin, John
- Ayton, Sir Robert
- Aytoun, William Edmonstone
BEdit
- Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, And Viscount St. Alban
- Bacon, Roger
- Bage, Robert
- Bagehot, Walter
- Bailey, Philip James
- Baillie, Joanna
- Baillie, Lady Grizel
- Baillie, Robert
- Bain, Alexander
- Baker, Sir Richard
- Baker, Sir Samuel White
- Bale, John
- Ballantine, James
- Ballantyne, Robert Michael
- Bancroft, George
- Banim, John
- Bannatyne, Richard
- Barbauld, Anna Letitia
- Barbour, John
- Barclay, Alexander
- Barclay, John
- Barclay, Robert
- Barham, Richard Harris
- Barlow, Joel
- Barnard, Lady Anne
- Barnes, Barnabe
- Barnes, William
- Barnfield, Richard
- Barrow, Isaac
- Barton, Bernard
- Baxter, Richard
- Bayly, Ada Ellen
- Bayly, Thomas Haynes
- Baynes, Thomas Spencer
- Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of
- Beattie, James
- Beaumont, Francis
- Beaumont, Sir John
- Beckford, William
- Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
- Bede or BÆDA
- Beecher, Henry Ward
- Behn, Aphra
- Bell, Henry Glassford
- Bellenden, or Ballantyne, John
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Bentley, Richard
- Beresford, James
- Berkeley, George
- Berners, Bernes, or Barnes, Juliana
- Berners, John Bourchier, 2nd Lord
- Besant, Sir Walter
- Bickerstaffe, Isaac
- Bird, Robert Montgomery
- Bishop, Samuel
- Black, William
- Blackie, John Stuart
- Blacklock, Thomas
- Blackmore, Sir Richard
- Blackmore, Richard Doddridge
- Blackstone, Sir William
- Blair, Hugh
- Blair, Robert
- Blake, William
- Blamire, Susanna
- Blessington, Margaret
- Blind, Mathilde
- Blind Harry or Henry The Minstrel
- Bloomfield, Robert
- Bodenham, John
- Boece, or Boethius, Hector
- Boker, George Henry
- Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, 1st Viscount
- Bonar, Horatius
- Boorde, or Borde, Andrew
- Borrow, George
- Boston, Thomas
- Boswell, James
- Boswell, Sir Alexander
- Boucicault, Dion
- Bowdler, Thomas
- Bower, Archibald
- Bower, or Bowmaker, Walter
- Bowles, William Lisle
- Bowring, Sir John
- Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
- Boyd, Zachary
- Boyle, The Hon. Robert
- Bradley, Edward
- Bradwardine, Thomas
- Braithwaite, or Brathwaite, Richard
- Bramston, James
- Bray, Anna Eliza
- Breton, Nicholas
- Brewster, Sir David
- Broke, or Brooke, Arthur
- Brome, Richard
- Bronté, Charlotte
- Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord
- Brooke, Henry
- Brooks, Charles William Shirley
- Brooks, Maria
- Broome, William
- Brougham And Vaux, Henry, 1st Lord
- Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Lord
- Brown, Charles Brockden
- Brown, Dr. John
- Brown, George Douglas
- Brown, Thomas
- Brown, Thomas Edward
- Brown, Tom
- Browne, Charles Farrar
- Browne, Isaac Hawkins
- Browne, Sir Thomas
- Browne, William
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Browning, Robert
- Bruce, James
- Bruce, Michael
- Brunton, Mary
- Bryant, Jacob
- Bryant, William Cullen
- Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton
- Buchanan, George
- Buchanan, Robert
- Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of
- Buckingham, James Silk
- Buckingham And Normanby, John Sheffield, 1st Duke of
- Buckland, Francis Trevelyan
- Buckle, Henry Thomas
- Budgell, Eustace
- Bull, George
- Bunyan, John
- Burckhardt, John Lewis
- Burke, Edmund
- Burnet, Gilbert
- Burnet, Thomas
- Burns, Robert
- Burton, John Hill
- Burton, Robert
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis
- Bury, Lady Charlotte
- Bury, Richard de
- Butler, Joseph
- Butler, Samuel (satirist)
- Butler, Samuel (writer)
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron
- Byron, Henry James
CEdit
- Cædmon
- Caird, Edward
- Caird, John
- Calamy, Edmund
- Calderwood, David
- Calverley, Charles Stuart
- Camden, William
- Campbell, George
- Campbell, John, 1st Lord Campbell
- Campbell, John Francis
- Campbell, Lewis
- Campbell, Thomas
- Campion, Thomas
- Canning, George
- Capgrave, John
- Carew, Richard
- Carew, Thomas
- Carey, Henry
- Carleton, William
- Carlyle, Alexander
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Carruthers, Robert
- Carte, Thomas
- Carter, Elizabeth
- Cartwright, William
- Cary, Alice
- Cary, Henry Francis
- Catlin, George
- Cave, Edward
- Cavendish, George
- Caxton, William
- Centlivre, Mrs. Susanna
- Chalkhill, John
- Chalmers, George
- Chalmers, Thomas
- Chamberlayne, William
- Chambers, Robert
- Chambers, William
- Chamier, Frederick
- Channing, William Ellery
- Chapman, George
- Chapone, Hester
- Charleton, Walter
- Chatterton, Thomas
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Cherry, Andrew
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
- Chettle, Henry
- Child, Francis J.
- Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria
- Chillingworth, William
- Church, Richard William
- Churchill, Charles
- Churchyard, Thomas
- Cibber, Colley
- Clare, John
- Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
- Clarke, Charles Cowden
- Clarke, Marcus
- Clarke, Samuel
- Cleveland, John
- Clinton, Henry Fynes
- Clough, Arthur Hugh
- Cobbe, Frances Power
- Cobbett, William
- Cockburn, Henry
- Cockton, Henry
- Colenso, John William
- Coleridge, Hartley
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Coleridge, Sara
- Colet, John
- Collier, Jeremy
- Collins, John
- Collins, John Churton
- Collins, Mortimer
- Collins, William
- Collins, William Wilkie
- Colman, George, The Elder
- Colman, George, The Younger
- Colton, Charles Caleb
- Combe, George
- Combe, William
- Congreve, William
- Conington, John
- Constable, Henry
- Cooke, John Esten
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Cooper, Thomas
- Corbet, Richard
- Cory, William Johnson
- Coryate, or Coryatt, Thomas
- Costello, Louisa Stuart
- Cotton, Charles
- Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce
- Cousin, Anne Ross
- Coverdale, Miles
- Cowley, Abraham
- Cowper, William
- Coxe, William
- Crabbe, George
- Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa
- Craik, George Lillie
- Cranmer, Thomas
- Crashaw, Richard
- Crawford, Francis Marion
- Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd
- Creech, Thomas
- Creighton, Mandell
- Croker, John Wilson
- Croker, Thomas Crofton
- Croly, George
- Crowe, Catherine
- Crowe, Eyre Evans
- Crowe, Sir Joseph Archer
- Crowe, William
- Crowne, John
- Cudworth, Ralph
- Cumberland, Richard
- Cummins, Maria Susanna
- Cunningham, Allan
- Curtis, George William
- Cynewulf
DEdit
- D'Israeli, Isaac
- D'Urfey, Thomas
- Dalling And Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Lord
- Dampier, William
- Dana, Richard Henry
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.
- Daniel, Samuel
- Darley, George
- Darwin, Charles Robert
- Darwin, Erasmus
- Dasent, Sir George Webbe
- Davenant, or D'Avenant, Sir William
- Davidson, John
- Davies, John
- Davies, Sir John
- Davis, Thomas Osborne
- Davis, or Davys, John
- Davy, Sir Humphrey
- Day, John
- Day, Thomas
- De Lolme, John Louis
- De Morgan, Augustus
- De Quincey, Thomas
- De Vere, Aubrey Thomas
- Defoe, Daniel
- Dekker, Thomas
- Deloney, Thomas
- Denham, Sir John
- Dennis, John
- Dermody, Thomas
- Dibdin, Charles
- Dickens, Charles
- Digby, Sir Kenelm
- Dilke, Charles Wentworth
- Dixon, Richard Watson
- Dixon, William Hepworth
- Dobell, Sydney Thompson
- Dodd, William
- Doddridge, Philip
- Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
- Dodsley, Robert
- Donne, John
- Doran, John
- Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of
- Dorset, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of, and Lord Buckhurst
- Douce, Francis
- Douglas, Gavin
- Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings
- Drake, Joseph Rodman
- Draper, John William
- Drayton, Michael
- Drummond, Henry
- Drummond, William
- Dryden, John
- Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson
- Duff, Sir Mountstuart E. Grant
- Dufferin, Helen Selena
- Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan
- Dugdale, Sir William
- Dunbar, William
- Dunlop, John Colin
- Duns, Scotus Johannes
- Dwight, Timothy
- Dyce, Alexander
- Dyer, John
- Dyer, Sir Edward
EEdit
- Earle, John
- Eastlake, Elizabeth, Lady
- Echard, Laurence
- Edgar, John George
- Edgeworth, Maria
- Edwards, Jonathan
- Edwards, Richard
- Egan, Pierce
- Eggleston, Edward
- Elizabeth, Queen
- Elliot, Ebenezer
- Elliot, Miss Jean
- Ellis, George
- Ellwood, Thomas
- Elphinstone, Mountstuart
- Elwin, Whitwell
- Elyot, Sir Thomas
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Ercildoun, Thomas of, or "Thomas The Rhymer"
- Erigena, or Scotus, John
- Erskine, Ralph
- Erskine, Thomas
- Etherege, Sir George
- Evans, Mary Ann or Marian
- Evelyn, John
- Ewing, Mrs. Juliana Horatia
FEdit
- Faber, Frederick William
- Fabyan, Robert
- Fairfax, Edward
- Falconer, William
- Fanshawe, Catherine Maria
- Fanshawe, Sir Richard
- Faraday, Michael
- Farmer, Richard
- Farquhar, George
- Farrar, Frederic William
- Fawcett, Henry
- Fawkes, Francis
- Feltham, Owen
- Fenton, Elijah
- Ferguson, Adam
- Ferguson, Sir Samuel
- Fergusson, James
- Fergusson, Robert
- Ferrier, James Frederick
- Ferrier, Susan Edmonstoune
- Field, Nathaniel
- Fielding, Henry
- Fielding, Sarah
- Filmer, Sir Robert
- Finlay, George
- Fisher, John
- Fiske, John
- Fitzgerald, Edward
- Fitzstephen, William
- Flavel, John
- Flecknoe, Richard
- Fletcher, Andrew
- Fletcher, Giles, And Phineas
- Florence of Worcester
- Florio, John
- Fonblanque, Albany William
- Foote, Samuel
- Forbes, James David
- Ford, John
- Ford, Paul Leicester
- Ford, Richard
- Fordun, John
- Forster, John (historian)
- Fortescue, Sir John
- Forster, John (essayist)
- Foster, Stephen Collins
- Fox, Charles James
- Fox, George
- Foxe, John
- Francis, Sir Philip
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Freeman, Edward Augustus
- Freneau, Philip
- Frere, John Hookham
- Froude, James Anthony
- Fuller, Sarah Margaret
- Fuller, Thomas
- Fullerton, Lady Georgiana
GEdit
- Gaimar, Geoffrey
- Galt, John
- Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
- Garnett, Richard
- Garrick, David
- Garrison, William Lloyd
- Garth, Sir Samuel
- Gascoigne, George
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
- Gatty, Mrs. Alfred
- Gauden, John
- Gay, John
- Geddes, Alexander
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Gerard, Alexander
- Gibbon, Edward
- Gifford, Richard
- Gifford, William
- Gildas
- Gilder, Richard Watson
- Gildon, Charles
- Gilfillan, George
- Gilfillan, Robert
- Gillespie, George
- Gillies, John
- Giraldus Cambrensis
- Gissing, George
- Gladstone, William Ewart
- Glanvill, Joseph
- Glapthorne, Henry
- Glascock, William Nugent
- Gleig, George Robert
- Glen, William
- Glover, Richard
- Godwin, Mrs. Mary
- Godwin, William
- Golding, Arthur
- Goldsmith, Oliver
- Goodall, Walter
- Goodwin, Thomas
- Googe, Barnabe
- Gordon, Adam Lindsay
- Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace Frances
- Gosson, Stephen
- Gough, Richard
- Gower, John
- Grafton, Richard
- Grahame, James
- Grahame, Simon or Simion
- Grainger, James
- Granger, James
- Grant, James
- Grant, James Augustus
- Grant, Mrs. Anne
- Grattan, Thomas Colley
- Gray, David
- Gray, Thomas
- Greeley, Horace
- Green, John Richard
- Green, Matthew
- Green, Thomas Hill
- Greene, Robert
- Greg, William Rathbone
- Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke
- Griffin, Bartholomew
- Griffin, Gerald
- Grimoald, Nicholas
- Groome, Francis Hindes
- Grosart, Alexander Balloch
- Grose, Francis
- Grosseteste, Robert
- Grote, George
- Grub, George
- Guest, Lady Charlotte
- Guthrie, Thomas
HEdit
- Habington, William
- Hailes, Dalrymple David, Lord
- Hake, Thomas Gordon
- Hakluyt, Richard
- Hale, Sir Matthew
- Hales, John
- Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
- Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of
- Hall, Mrs. Anna Maria
- Hall, Basil
- Hall, or Halle, Edward
- Hall, Joseph
- Hall, Robert
- Hallam, Henry
- Halleck, Fitzgreene
- Halliwell-Phillips, James Orchard
- Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
- Hamilton, Alexander
- Hamilton, Elizabeth
- Hamilton, Thomas
- Hamilton, William (of Bangour)
- Hamilton, William (of Gilbertfield)
- Hamilton, Sir William
- Hanna, William
- Hannay, James
- Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert
- Hare, Augustus William
- Hare, Julius Charles
- Harington, Sir John
- Harland, Henry
- Harrington, James
- Harris, James
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Harte, Francis Bret
- Hartley, David
- Harvey, Gabriel
- Hawes, Stephen
- Hawker, Robert Stephen
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Hay, John
- Hayley, William
- Hayne, Paul Hamilton
- Hayward, Abraham
- Hayward, Sir John
- Haywood, Mrs. Eliza
- Hazlitt, William
- Head, Sir Francis Bond
- Hearn, Lafcadio
- Hearne, Thomas
- Heber, Reginald
- Helps, Sir Arthur
- Hemans, Felicia Dorothea
- Henley, William Ernest
- Henry, Matthew
- Henry, Robert
- Henry VIII.
- Henry of Huntingdon
- Henryson, Robert
- Henty, George Alfred
- Heraud, John Abraham
- Herbert, George
- Herbert, Sir Thomas
- Herbert, of Cherbury, Edward, 1st Lord
- Herd, David
- Herrick, Robert
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William
- Hervey, James
- Hervey, John, Lord
- Heylin, Peter
- Heywood, John
- Heywood, Thomas
- Higden, Ranulf or Ralph
- Hill, Aaron
- Hinton, James
- Hoadley, Benjamin
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Hoby, Sir Thomas
- Hoccleve, or Occleve, Thomas
- Hoffman, Charles Fenno
- Hogg, James
- Hogg, Thomas Jefferson
- Holcroft, Thomas
- Holinshed, or Hollingshead, Raphael or Ralph
- Holland, Josiah Gilbert
- Holland, Philemon
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Home, John
- Hone, William
- Hood, Thomas
- Hook, Theodore Edward
- Hook, Walter Farquhar
- Hooker, Richard
- Hoole, John
- Hope, Thomas
- Horne, Richard Henry or Hengist
- Horne, Thomas Hartwell
- Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord
- Howard, Edward
- Howard, Sir Robert
- Howe, John
- Howell, James
- Howie, John
- Howitt, William
- Huchown, or Sir Hugh of Eglinton
- Hughes, John
- Hughes, Thomas
- Hume, Alexander
- Hume, David,
- Hunnis, William
- Hunt, James Henry Leigh
- Hurd, Richard
- Hutcheson, Francis
- Hutchinson, Mrs. Lucy
- Hutton, Richard Holt
- Huxley, Thomas Henry
IEdit
- Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth
- Ingelow, Jean
- Innes, Cosmo
- Innes, Thomas
- Ireland, William Henry
- Irving, Edward
- Irving, Washington
JEdit
- James, George Payne Rainsford
- James I., King of Scotland
- Jameson, Mrs. Anna Brownell
- Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse
- Jefferies, Richard
- Jeffrey, Francis
- Jerrold, Douglas William
- Jesse, John Heneage
- Jevons, William Stanley
- Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor
- John of Salisbury
- Johnson, Lionel
- Johnson, Samuel (essayist)
- Johnson, Samuel (political writer)
- Johnston, Arthur
- Johnstone, Charles
- Jones, Ebenezer
- Jones, Ernest Charles
- Jones, Sir William
- Jonson, Ben or Benjamin
- Jortin, John
- Jowett, Benjamin
- Judd, Sylvester
KEdit
- Kames, Henry Home, Lord
- Kavanagh, Julia
- Kaye, Sir John William
- Keary, Annie
- Keats, John
- Keble, John
- Keightley, Thomas
- Keith, Robert
- Kelly, Hugh
- Ken, Thomas
- Kennedy, John Pendleton
- Kennedy, Walter
- Killigrew, Thomas
- King, Henry
- Kinglake, Alexander William
- Kingsford, William
- Kingsley, Charles
- Kingsley, Henry
- Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
- Kingston, William Henry Giles
- Kirkland, Joseph
- Kitto, John
- Knight, Charles
- Knight, Henry Gally
- Knolles, Richard
- Knowles, Herbert
- Knowles, James Sheridan
- Knox, John
- Knox, Vicesimus
- Knox, William
- Kyd, Thomas
LEdit
- L'Estrange, Sir Roger
- Laidlaw, William
- Laing, David
- Laing, Malcolm
- Lamb, Charles
- Lamb, Lady Caroline
- Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
- Landor, Walter Savage
- Lane, Edward William
- Langhorne, John
- Langland, William
- Lanier, Sidney
- Lardner, Dionysius
- Latimer, Hugh
- Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick
- Law, William
- Lawrence, George Alfred
- Layamon
- Layard, Sir Austin Henry
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
- Lear, Edward
- Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
- Lee, Nathaniel
- Lee, Sophia
- Leighton, Robert
- Leland, Charles Godfrey
- Leland or Leyland, John
- Lemon, Mark
- Lennox, Charlotte
- Leslie, or Lesley, John
- Lever, Charles James
- Lewes, George Henry
- Lewis, Matthew Gregory
- Lewis, Sir George Cornewall
- Leyden, John
- Liddell, Henry George
- Liddon, Henry Parry
- Lightfoot, Joseph Barber
- Lillo, George
- Lindsay, or Lindesay, Robert
- Lindsay, or Lyndsay, Sir David
- Lingard, John
- Linton, Mrs. Eliza Lynn
- Lister, Thomas Henry
- Lithgow, William
- Livingstone, David
- Lloyd, Robert
- Locke, David Ross
- Locke, John
- Locker-Lampson, Frederick
- Lockhart, John Gibson
- Lodge, Thomas
- Logan, John
- Long, George
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Lovelace, Richard
- Lover, Samuel
- Lowell, James Russell
- Lowth, Robert
- Lydgate, John
- Lyell, Sir Charles
- Lyly, John
- Lyte, Henry Francis
- Lyttelton, George, 1st Lord Lyttelton
- Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton-Bulwer, 1st Lord
- Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl Of Lytton
MEdit
- M'Cosh, James
- M'Crie, Thomas
- M'Lennan, John Ferguson
- Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord
- Maccarthy, Denis Florence
- Macdonald, George
- Mackay, Charles
- Mackenzie, Henry
- Mackenzie, Sir George
- Mackintosh, Sir James
- Macklin, Charles
- Macleod, Norman
- Macneill, Hector
- Macpherson, James
- Maginn, William
- Mahony, Francis Sylvester
- Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner
- Mair, or Major, John
- Maitland, Sir Richard
- Malcolm, Sir John
- Mallet, originally Malloch, David
- Malone, Edmund
- Malory, Sir Thomas
- Malthus, Thomas Robert
- Mandeville, Bernard de
- Mandeville, Sir John.
- Mangan, James Clarence
- Manley, Mrs. Mary De La Riviere
- Manning, Anne
- Manning, Henry Edward
- Mannyng, Robert, or Robert De Brunne
- Mansel, Henry Longueville
- Map, or Mapes, Walter de
- Markham, Gervase
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Marmion, Shackerley
- Marryat, Frederick
- Marsh, Herbert
- Marston, John
- Marston, Philip Bourke
- Martin, Sir Theodore
- Martineau, Harriet
- Martineau, James
- Marvell, Andrew
- Mason, William
- Massey, Gerald
- Massinger, Philip
- Masson, David
- Mather, Cotton
- Mathias, Thomas James
- Maturin, Charles Robert
- Maurice, Frederick Denison
- Max-Muller, Friedrich
- Maxwell, William Hamilton
- May, Sir Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough
- May, Thomas
- Mayne, Jasper
- Mayne, John
- Melville, Herman
- Melville, James
- Melville, Sir James
- Meredith, George
- Meres, Francis
- Merivale, Charles
- Meston, William
- Mickle, William Julius
- Middleton, Conyers
- Middleton, Thomas
- Mill, James
- Mill, John Stuart
- Miller, Hugh
- Miller, Thomas
- Milman, Henry Hart
- Milton, John
- Minot, Laurence
- Minto, William
- Mitchell, John
- Mitford, Mary Russell
- Mitford, William
- Moir, David Macbeth
- Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord
- Montagu, Elizabeth
- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
- Montgomerie, Alexander
- Montgomery, James
- Montgomery, Robert
- Moore, Edward
- Moore, John
- Moore, Thomas
- More, Hannah
- More, Henry
- More, Sir Thomas
- Morgan, Lady
- Morier, James Justinian
- Morison, James Cotter
- Morley, Henry
- Morris, Sir Lewis
- Morris, William
- Morton, Thomas
- Motherwell, William
- Motley, John Lothrop
- Moultrie, John
- Mulock, Dinah Maria
- Munday, Anthony
- Mure, William
- Murphy, Arthur
- Murray, Lindley
- Myers, Frederic William Henry
NEdit
- Nabbes, Thomas
- Nairne, Carolina
- Napier, Mark
- Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick
- Nash, Thomas
- Nayler, James
- Neal, John
- Neaves, Charles, Lord
- Neckham, Alexander
- Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of
- Newman, Francis William
- Newman, John Henry
- Newton, John
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Nichol, John
- Noel, Hon. Roden Berkeley Wriothesley
- Norris, John
- North, Sir Thomas
- Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah
- Norton, Charles Eliot
OEdit
- O'Keeffe, John
- O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar
- Occam or Ockham, William
- Ockley, Simon
- Oldham, John
- Oldmixon, John
- Oldys, William
- Oliphant, Laurence
- Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant
- Opie, Mrs. Amelia
- Ordericus Vitalis
- Orm, or Ormin
- Orme, Robert
- Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of
- Otway, Cæsar
- Otway, Thomas
- Outram, George
- Overbury, Sir Thomas
- Owen, John
- Owen, John (epigrammatist)
- Owen, John (puritan)
- Owen, Robert
- Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of
PEdit
- Paine, Thomas
- Painter, William
- Paley, William
- Palgrave, Francis Turner
- Palgrave, Sir Francis
- Paltock, Robert
- Pardoe, Julia
- Paris, Matthew
- Park, Mungo
- Parker, Theodore
- Parkman, Francis
- Parnell, Thomas
- Parr, Dr. Samuel
- Pater, Walter Horatio
- Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
- Pattison, Mark
- Paulding, James Kirke
- Payn, James
- Peacock, Thomas Love
- Pearson, Charles Henry
- Pearson, John
- Pecock, Reginald
- Peele, George
- Penn, William
- Pennant, Thomas
- Pepys, Samuel
- Percival, James Gates
- Percy, Thomas
- Philips, Ambrose
- Philips, John
- Phillips, Samuel
- Picken, Andrew
- Pierpont, John
- Pike, Albert
- Pinkerton, John
- Pinkney, Edward Coate
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch
- Planché, James Robinson
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Pollok, Robert
- Pomfret, John
- Pope, Alexander
- Pordage, Samuel
- Porson, Richard
- Porter, Anna Maria
- Porter, Jane
- Powell, Frederick York
- Praed, Winthrop Mackworth
- Prescott, William Hickling
- Price, Richard
- Prideaux, Humphrey
- Priestly, Joseph
- Pringle, Thomas
- Prior, Matthew
- Procter, Adelaide Ann
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