19th-century English writers

George Henry Lewes (/ˈluːɪs/; 18 April 1817 – 30 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre.

John Richard Green (12 December 1837 – 7 March 1883) was an English historian.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall (28 September 1868 – 13 April 1956), who wrote under the pseudonym S.

Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, GCB, FRS (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology.

Edward Backhouse Eastwick CB (1814 – 16 July 1883, Ventnor, Isle of Wight) was a British orientalist, diplomat and Conservative Member of Parliament.

Henry Vernon Esmond (30 November 1869 – 17 April 1922) was a British actor and playwright.

Reynold Gideon Bouyer (24 December 1741 – 3 January 1826) was an English clergyman, archdeacon of Northumberland.

Richard Ayton (1786–1823), was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.

Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (12 March 1868 – 25 May 1933) was a Church of England clergyman and author.

John Harris DD (March 8, 1802 – December 21, 1856), English Congregational minister, Christian essayist and author, became the first Principal of New College, St John’s Wood, London.

Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell (1780–1846) was an English antiquary, Anglican clergyman and oriental traveller.

Margaret Elise Harkness aka John Law (28 February 1854 – 10 December 1923) was an English radical journalist and writer.

Sir Thomas Walker Arnold, CIE (1864–1930) was a British orientalist and historian of Islamic art who taught at Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh Muslim University (then Aligarh College), and Government College University, Lahore.

William Brough (28 April 1826 – 13 March 1870) was an English writer.

John Courtney (1804–1865) was a Victorian playwright, dramatic actor and comedian.

Alfred Richard Allinson (1852–1929) was a British academic, author, and voluminous translator of continental European literature (mostly French, but occasionally Latin, German and Russian) into English.

Mary Angela Dickens (31 October 1862 – 7 February 1948) was a British novelist and journalist of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, and the oldest grandchild of the novelist Charles Dickens.

Sarah Grand (10 June 1854 – 12 May 1943) was an Irish feminist writer active from 1873 to 1922.

Eliza Lynn Linton (10 February 1822 – 14 July 1898) was the first female salaried journalist in Britain, and the author of over 20 novels.

John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew, né Higgins (3 August 1823 – 19 June 1874) was an English author, preacher, and public reader.

John Eagles (1783–1855), was an English artist and author.

John Hungerford Pollen (1858–1925) was an English Jesuit, known as a historian of the Protestant Reformation.

John William Bowden (21 February 1798 – 15 September 1844) was an English functionary and writer on church matters.

Joseph Paul Christopher Hatton (3 February 1837 (baptised Andover 22 March 1837) – 31 July 1907) was a novelist and journalist.

Isabella Harwood or Ross Neil (14 June 1837 – 29 May 1888) was a British novelist who also wrote dramas in verse.

Percy Edward Newberry (23 April 1869 – 7 August 1949) was a British Egyptologist.

Charlotte Elliott (March 18, 1789 – September 22, 1871) was an English poet and hymn writer.

Elizabeth Bentley (1767–1839) was a poet.

Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798–1869), aka Mrs.

Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823) was a French into English translator and a novelist.

Ella Nora Hepworth Dixon (1857–1932) was an English writer, novelist and editor.

Emily Eden (3 March 1797 – 5 August 1869) was an English poet and novelist who gave witty pictures of English life in the early 19th century.

Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (baptized 8 August 1759 – 22 November 1835) was an English novelist, associated with Twickenham.

William Senhouse Kirkes (21 January 1822 near Cartmel, Lancashire – 8 December 1864) was an English physiologist noted for his reference work "Kirkes' Physiology" which first appeared in 1848.

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

James Anthony Froude FRSE (/ˈfruːd/ FROOD) (23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine.

Maria Eliza Rundell (1745–1828) was a 19th-century British author of cookery books.

Herbert Ward (11 January 1863, in London – 5 August 1919, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a British sculptor, illustrator, writer and African explorer.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838), English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.

Alicia Amherst (30 July 1865 – 14 September 1941) was an English horticulturist, botanist, and author of the first scholarly account of English gardening history.

Charlotte Eliza Bousfield (born Collins, 10 July 1828 - 20 September 1933) is best known as a diarist whose writing give an extensive insight into the world and values of a middle-class Victorian lady of staunch Methodist and temperance convictions.

Henry Richard Fox Bourne (24 December 1837 – 2 February 1909) was a British social reformer and writer.

Henry William Greville (1801–1872) was an English aristocrat and diarist.

Ann Julia Hatton (née Kemble; other married name Curtis; published as Ann of Swansea) (29 April 1764 – 26 December 1838, Swansea), was a popular novelist in Britain in the early 19th century.

Anne Elizabeth Baker (16 June 1786 - 22 April 1861) was a philologist, historian and illustrator of Northampton, England.

Cyrus Redding (1785, Cornwall - 1870) was a British journalist and wine writer.

Charlotte Dacre (1771 or 1772 – 7 November 1825), born Charlotte King, was an English author of Gothic novels.

Daniel Lysons (1762–1834) was a notable English antiquary and topographer of the late 18th and early 19th century, who published the four-volume The Environs of London (published 1792 to 1796).

Francis Plowden (8 June 1749 – 4 January 1829) was an English Jesuit, barrister and writer.

Frederick Webb Headley (10 April 1856 – 25 November 1919) was an English naturalist and author of books on evolution and Darwinism.

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

George Linnaeus Banks (2 March 1821 – 3 May 1881), husband of author Isabella Banks, was a British journalist, editor, poet, playwright, amateur actor, orator, and Methodist.

Lady Georgiana Fullerton (23 September 1812 -19 January 1885) was an English novelist.

Selina Davenport (27 June 1779 – 14 July 1859) was an English novelist, briefly married to the miscellanist and biographer Richard Alfred Davenport.

John Relly Beard (4 August 1800 – 22 November 1876) was an English Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, university lecturer, and translator who co-founded Unitarian College Manchester and wrote more than thirty books.

William Bragge, F.

John Richard de Capel Wise (1831–1 April 1890) was a writer and natural historian.

Theophilus Thompson, M.

Charles Blachford Mansfield (8 May 1819 – 26 February 1855) was a British chemist and author.

Pierce Egan the Younger (1814–1880) was an English journalist and novelist.

William Gunn (1750–1841) was an English clergyman and miscellaneous writer.

William Stevenson Fitch (1793–1859) was an English antiquarian.

Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet, FRCS, FRS (Cirencester, 16 July 1783 – London, 5 July 1867) was an English surgeon who became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen.

Ferdinand Gottschalk (28 February 1858 – 10 November 1944) was an English theatre and film actor.

Benjamin Braidley (1792–1845) was an English writer on Sunday schools.

Henry Fothergill Chorley (15 December 1808 – 16 February 1872) was an English literary, art and music critic, writer and editor.

Nicholas Carlisle (York, England, 1771 – Margate, England, 27 August 1847) FRS, MRIA, K.

Robert Benson (5 February 1797 – 21 June 1844) was a barrister and author who served as recorder of Salisbury.

Robert Bourne, M.

Robert Ward or from 1828 Robert Plumer Ward (19 March 1765 – 13 August 1846), was an English barrister, politician, and novelist.

Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868 – 27 June 1942), born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author.

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

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon, 23 April 1879 – 5 August 1940) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction.

Catherine Hutton (11 February 1756 – 13 March 1846) was an English novelist and letter-writer.

Cecilia Lucy Brightwell (1811–1875), was an English etcher and author, mostly of volumes of short biographies intended for young people .

Clara Lucas Balfour (née Lucas; 21 December 1808 – 1878) was an English temperance campaigner, lecturer and author.

Jane Wells Webb Loudon (19 August 1807 – 13 July 1858) was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction.

Lucy Elizabeth Bather (1836–1864), was an English writer for children, known as ‘Aunt Elizabeth.

Marianne Margaret Egerton, Viscountess Alford, generally known as Lady Marian Alford, (1817–1888), was an English artist, art patron, and author.

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (née Galton, 25 November 1778 – 29 August 1856) was a British writer in the anti-slavery movement.

Alfred Barratt (1844–1881) was an English barrister and philosophical writer.

Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (6 January 1837 – 20 July 1896) was the first child of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.

Charlotte Alington Pye Barnard (23 December 1830, Louth, Lincolnshire – 30 January 1869, Dover) was an English poet and composer of ballads and hymns, who often wrote under the pseudonym Claribel.

Francis Place (3 November 1771, London – 1 January 1854, London) was an English social reformer.

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

David Dippie Dixon (1 September 1842 in Whittingham – 28 November 1929 in Rothbury) was an English local historian and writer on his native Northumberland.

Quick reference Thomas Edward Clark (10 May 1888 – 30 April 1962) was an English conductor and music producer for the BBC.

Edward Dutton Cook (30 January 1829 – 11 September 1883) was an English dramatic critic and author.

Edward Forster FRS FSA (1769–1828) was an English cleric and miscellaneous writer.

Edward Hayes Plumptre (6 August 1821 – 1 February 1891) was an English divine and scholar born in London.

Hugh Reginald Haweis (3 April 1838 – 29 January 1901) was an English cleric and writer.

Samuel Lewis (c.1782 – 1865) was the editor and publisher of topographical dictionaries and maps of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.