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19 famous people found
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Emily BRONTE
English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature
1818 - 1848 -
Charles DICKENS
English writer and social critic
1812 - 1870 -
Lord Byron
English romantic poet and peer
1788 - 1824 -
Henry Sidgwick
English utilitarian philosopher and economist
1838 - 1900 -
William Beckford
English novelist
1760 - 1844 -
Jane AUSTEN
English novelist
1775 - 1817 -
Elizabeth GASKELL
British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era
1810 - 1865 -
Ethel LAVENU
British stage actress
1842 - 1917 -
Alfred TENNYSON
Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign
1809 - 1892 -
Erasmus DARWIN
English physician
1731 - 1802 -
Elizabeth Carter
English poet, classicist, writer, translator, and linguist
1717 - 1806 -
Egerton Leigh
British landowner, soldier, Conservative politician and author
1815 - 1876 -
Georgiana CAVENDISH
English socialite, political organizer, style icon, author, and activist
1757 - 1806 -
Samuel ARNOLD
English composer and organist
1740 - 1802 -
John Buonarotti PAPWORTH
British architect, artist and a founder member of the Royal Institute of British Architects
1775 - 1847 -
Matthew ARNOLD
British poet and cultural critic
1822 - 1888 -
Benjamin Henry LATROBE
British neoclassical architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol
1764 - 1820 -
Percy Bysshe SHELLEY
One of the major English Romantic poets
1792 - 1822 -
Lewis CARROLL
English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and a photographer
1832 - 1898