18th-century English writers

Joseph Warton (April 1722 – 23 February 1800) was an English academic and literary critic.

Laurence Fogg or Fogge (1623–1718) was dean of Chester.

Richard Boulton (fl. 1697–1724), was a physician and author from England.

Richard Graves (4 May 1715 – 23 November 1804) was an English minister, poet, and novelist.

Caleb Hillier Parry (21 October 1755 – 9 March 1822) was an English physician, who is remembered for Parry–Romberg syndrome, first described in work published in 1825, after his death.

James Caulfield (1764–1826) was an English author and printseller, known also as a publisher and editor.

Arabella Plantin (born 1700) was an eighteenth century British novelist.

Francis Tolson (? – 1745) was an English poet, dramatist, and the author of several works.

Joseph Pitts (1663–1735?) was an Englishman who was taken into slavery by Barbary pirates from Algeria in 1678 at the age of fourteen or fifteen.

George Cockings (died 6 February 1802) was an English writer.

Lewis Theobald (baptised 2 April 1688 – 18 September 1744), British textual editor and author, was a landmark figure both in the history of Shakespearean editing and in literary satire.

Jane Barker (1652-1732) was a popular English fiction writer, poet, and a staunch Jacobite.

Sarah Fielding (8 November 1710 – 9 April 1768) was an English author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding.

John Acland (c.1729 – 14 August 1795), was a Church of England clergyman and an author of a pamphlet on poor law reform which foresaw a system of national insurance.

John Ash (1723 – 18 June 1798), was an English physician and founder of Birmingham General Hospital.

John Barret (1631–1713) was a prominent English Presbyterian divine and writer on religion.

John Braddocke (1656–1719) was an English cleric.

John Darwall (1731–1789) was an English clergyman and hymnodist.

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Penelope Aubin (c. 1679 – 1738?) was an English novelist, poet, and translator.

Soame Jenyns (1 January 1704 – 18 December 1787) was an English writer.

Catharine Trotter Cockburn (16 August 1674? – 11 May 1749) was a novelist, dramatist, and philosopher.

Mary Leapor (1722–1746) was an English poet, born in Marston St.

Eliza Haywood (c. 1693 – 25 February 1756), born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher.

John Bancks (1709 – 19 April 1751), also known as John Banks, was an English writer.

William Mason (fl. 1672–1709) was an English writing-master and stenographer.

William Barrowby FRS FRCP (1682 – 30 December 1758) was an English physician.

Bertie Greatheed (1759–1826) was an English dramatist.

Eliza Bromley (née Eliza Nugent) (fl. 1784 - 1803) was an English novelist and translator.

Elizabeth Elstob (29 September 1683 – 3 June 1756), the "Saxon Nymph", was a pioneering scholar of Anglo-Saxon.

Ned Ward (1667 – 20 June 1731), also known as Edward Ward, was a satirical writer and publican in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century based in London.

Leonard Welsted (baptised 3 June 1688 – August 1747) was an English poet and "dunce" in Alexander Pope's writings (both in The Dunciad and in Peri Bathos).

Sophia Lee (1750 – 13 March 1824) was an English novelist, dramatist and educator.

Nicholas Rowe (/roʊ/; 20 June 1674 – 6 December 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1715.

John Hampson (1760–1817?), was an English miscellaneous writer.

Joseph Reed (March 1723 – 15 August 1787) was an English playwright and poet known for his 1761 farce The Register Office and the 1769 comic opera adaptation of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.

Mary Hays (1759–1843) was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels, and several works on famous (and infamous) women.

Maria Elizabetha Jacson (1755 – 10 October 1829) was an eighteenth-century English writer, as was her sister, Frances Jacson (1754–1842), known for her books on botany at a time when there were significant obstacles to women's authorship.

Diana Astry, (baptized 2 January 1671 - 4 December 1716) was an English diarist and compiler of a recipe book containing 375 recipes acquired from a number of sources including family and friends.

Catherine "Kitty" Clive (née Raftor) (5 November 1711 – 6 December 1785) was an English actress of considerable repute on the stages of London.

John Mills (c. 1717 – c. 1794) was an English writer on agriculture, translator and editor.

Martha Mears was an eighteenth-century midwife and author.

John Ellis (1643–1738) was an English official and Member of Parliament.

Ellin Devis (December 1746 - February 1820) was a schoolmistress and author of The Accidence (1775), a popular eighteenth-century grammar.

Moses Browne (1704 – September 1787) was a pen-cutter from Clerkenwell, London, England who became a poet and eventually rose amongst the ranks of the Church of England.

Frodsham Hodson (1770–1822) was an English churchman and academic, the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1809.

The Rev. George Gregory (14 April 1754 – 12 March 1808) was an English writer, scholar, and preacher in the 18th and early 19th-century Britain.

Stephen Duck (c. 1705 – 1756) was an English poet whose career reflected both the Augustan era's interest in "naturals" (natural geniuses) and its resistance to classlessness.

Hercules Collins (died 1702), was an English Baptist minister, author of a revision of the Heidelberg Catechism called the Orthodox Catechism.

John Andrews (1736–1809) was a historical writer and pamphleteer.

John Constable (alias Lacey; pen-name Clerophilus Alethes) (10 November 1676 or 1678, in Lincolnshire – 28 March 1743) was an English Jesuit controversial writer.

Esther Lewis , (1716 - 1794) was an English poet who published in the fashionable Bath Journal and occasionally in the Gentleman's Magazine.

William Assheton (1641–1711) was an English cleric, a prolific writer and life assurance pioneer.

William Atherton (1775–1850), was a Wesleyan minister.

William Asplin (1686/7–1758) was a British writer, theologian, and churchman.

William Ayrton FRS FSA (22 February 1777 – 8 May 1858) was an English opera manager and music critic.

William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) was a British hack writer.

William Rider (1723 – 30 November 1785) was an English historian, priest and writer.

Robert Burscough (1651 –July 1709) was an English divine.

Robert Paltock (1697–1767) was an English novelist and attorney.

Charles Rochemont (or Rochmont) Aikin (1775–1847) was an English doctor and chemist.

Harriet Lee (1757 – 1 August 1851) was an English novelist and playwright.

John Hudson (1662 – November 26, 1719), English classical scholar, was born at Wythop, near Cockermouth in Cumberland.

Isaac Chauncy (1632–1712) was an English dissenting minister.

Richard Turner (1724? – 12 April 1791) was an English divine and author.

Richard Turner (1753 – 22 August 1788) was an English author.

Francis Webb (18 September 1735 – 2 August 1815) was an English writer.

William Mason (12 February 1724 – 7 April 1797) was an English poet, editor and gardener.

Catherine Talbot (May 1721 – 9 January 1770) was an English author and member of the Blue Stockings Society.

Dr. Charles Balguy (1708 – 28 February 1767) was an English physician and translator.

Mary Chandler (1687–1745) was an English poet.

Alethea Lewis (born 19 December 1749, buried 12 November 1827) was an English novelist, born at Acton, near Nantwich, Cheshire.

Charles Dunster (1750–1816) was a British writer, and translator.

David Bradberry, sometimes called Bradbury (1736–1803), was an English nonconformist minister.

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Edward Baldwyn (1746–1817) was an English clergyman and pamphleteer.

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Hudson Gurney (19 January 1775 – 9 November 1864) was an English antiquary and verse-writer, also known as a politician.

James Adams (1737 – 7 December 1802) was an English Jesuit and philologist.

Samuel Ferrand Washington (born 1759, fl. 1790 – 1812) was an English merchant and political activist.

Sarah Scott (née Robinson) (21 September 1723 – 3 November 1795) was an English novelist, translator, social reformer, and member of the Bluestockings.