A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

A

 * 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

B

 * 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

C

 * 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

D

 * 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

E

 * 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

F

 * 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

G

 * 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

H

 * 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

I

 * Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth
 * Ingelow, Jean
 * Innes, Cosmo
 * Innes, Thomas
 * Ireland, William Henry
 * Irving, Edward
 * Irving, Washington

J

 * 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

K

 * 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

L

 * 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

M

 * 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

N

 * 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

O

 * 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

P

 * 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
 * Procter, Bryan Waller
 * Prynne, William
 * Psalmanazar, George
 * Purchas, Samuel
 * Pusey, Edward Bouverie
 * Puttenham, George
 * Pye, Henry James

Q

 * Quarles, Francis

R

 * Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann
 * Raine, Allen
 * Raleigh, Sir Walter
 * Ramsay, Allan
 * Ramsay, Edward Bannerman
 * Ramée, Louise De La
 * Randolph, Thomas
 * Rapin De Thoyras, Paul
 * Raspe, Rudolf Eric-
 * Rawlinson, George
 * Rawlinson, Sir Henry Cresswicke
 * Ray, John
 * Read, Thomas Buchanan
 * Reade, Charles
 * Reed, Henry
 * Reeve, Clara
 * Reeve, Henry
 * Reid, Mayne
 * Reid, Sir Thomas Wemyss
 * Reid, Thomas
 * Reynolds, Sir Joshua
 * Rhodes, William Barnes
 * Ricardo, David
 * Rice, James
 * Rich, Barnabe
 * Richardson, Samuel
 * Ritchie, Leitch
 * Ritson, Joseph
 * Robertson, Frederick William
 * Robertson, Thomas William
 * Robertson, William
 * Robinson, Henry Crabb
 * Rochester, John Wilmot
 * Rogers, Henry
 * Rogers, Samuel
 * Rolle, Richard
 * Rollock, Robert
 * Roper, William
 * Roscoe, William
 * Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of
 * Rose, William Stewart
 * Rossetti, Christina Georgina
 * Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
 * Rous, Francis
 * Row, John
 * Rowe, Nicholas
 * Rowley, William
 * Ruddiman, Thomas
 * Ruskin, John
 * Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell
 * Russell, Sir William Howard
 * Russell, William
 * Rutherford, Samuel
 * Rycaut, or Ricaut, Sir Paul
 * Rymer, Thomas

S

 * Sala, George Augustus Henry
 * Sale, George
 * Sanderson, Robert
 * Sands, Robert Charles
 * Sandys, George
 * Savage, Richard
 * Savile, Sir Henry
 * Saxby, Edward
 * Scott, Alexander
 * Scott, Hugh Stowell
 * Scott, John
 * Scott, Lady John
 * Scott, Michael
 * Scott, Sir Walter
 * Scott, William Bell
 * Sedley, Sir Charles
 * Seeley, Sir John Robert
 * Selden, John
 * Sellar, William Young
 * Sempill, Robert
 * Senior, Nassau William
 * Settle, Elkanah
 * Shadwell, Thomas
 * Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of
 * Shairp, John Campbell
 * Shakespeare, William
 * Sharp, William
 * Shaw, Henry Wheeler
 * Shelley, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft
 * Shelley, Percy Bysshe
 * Shenstone, William
 * Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
 * Sherlock, William
 * Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Martha
 * Shirley, James
 * Shorthouse, Joseph Henry
 * Sibbes, Richard
 * Sidney, Sir Philip
 * Sidney, or Sydney, Algernon
 * Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia
 * Simms, William Gilmore
 * Skelton, John
 * Skelton, Sir John
 * Skene, William Forbes
 * Skinner, John
 * Skipsey, Joseph
 * Smart, Christopher
 * Smedley, Frank
 * Smiles, Samuel
 * Smith, Adam
 * Smith, Albert
 * Smith, Alexander
 * Smith, Horace
 * Smith, Mrs. Charlotte
 * Smith, Sir William
 * Smith, Sydney
 * Smith, Walter Chalmers
 * Smith, William Robertson
 * Smollett, Tobias George
 * Somerville, Mrs. Mary
 * Somerville, William
 * Sotheby, William
 * South, Robert
 * Southerne, Thomas
 * Southey, Mrs. Caroline Anne
 * Southey, Robert
 * Southwell, Robert
 * Spedding, James
 * Speed, John
 * Spelman, Sir Henry
 * Spence, Joseph
 * Spencer, Herbert
 * Spencer, William Robert
 * Spenser, Edmund
 * Spottiswood, John
 * Sprague, Charles
 * Sprat, Thomas
 * Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
 * Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope
 * Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn
 * Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
 * Stanley, Thomas
 * Stanyhurst, Richard
 * Stedman, Edmund Clarence
 * Steele, Sir Richard
 * Steevens, George
 * Steevens, George Warrington
 * Stephen, Sir James
 * Stephen, Sir Leslie
 * Stephens, Thomas
 * Sterling, John
 * Sterne, Laurence
 * Sternhold, Thomas
 * Stevenson, Robert Louis
 * Stewart, Dugald
 * Stillingfleet, Edward
 * Stirling, James Hutchison
 * Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of
 * Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William
 * Stockton, Francis Richard
 * Stoddard, Richard Henry
 * Storer, Thomas
 * Story, William Wetmore
 * Stow, John
 * Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher
 * Strickland, Agnes
 * Strode, William
 * Strype, John
 * Stuart, Gilbert
 * Stubbs, William
 * Stukeley, William
 * Suckling, Sir John
 * Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
 * Surtees, Robert Smith
 * Swift, Jonathan
 * Swinburne, Algernon Charles
 * Sylvester, Joshua
 * Symonds, John Addington
 * Synge, John Millington

T

 * Tabley De, John Byron Leicester Warren, 3rd Lord
 * Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon
 * Tannahill, Robert
 * Tate, Nahum
 * Tatham, John
 * Tautphoeus, Baroness
 * Taylor, Bayard
 * Taylor, Isaac
 * Taylor, Jeremy
 * Taylor, John
 * Taylor, Philip Meadows
 * Taylor, Sir Henry
 * Taylor, Thomas
 * Taylor, Tom
 * Taylor, William
 * Temple, Sir William
 * Tennant, William
 * Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Lord
 * Tennyson, Frederick
 * Tennyson Turner, Charles
 * Thackeray, William Makepeace
 * Theobald, Lewis
 * Thirwall, Connop
 * Thoms, William John
 * Thomson, James (1700-1748)
 * Thomson, James (1834-1882)
 * Thoreau, Henry David
 * Tickell, Thomas
 * Ticknor, George
 * Tighe, Mary
 * Tillotson, John
 * Timrod, Henry
 * Tobin, John
 * Toland, John
 * Tooke, John Horne
 * Toplady, Augustus Montague
 * Tourneur, or Turner, Cyril
 * Traherne, Thomas
 * Trelawny, Edward John
 * Trench, Richard Chenevix
 * Trevisa, John of
 * Trollope, Anthony
 * Trollope, Mrs. Frances
 * Trumbull, John
 * Tucker, Abraham
 * Tucker, George
 * Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly
 * Tuckerman, Henry Theodore
 * Tulloch, John
 * Tupper, Martin Farquhar
 * Turberville, or Turbervile, George
 * Turner, Sharon
 * Tusser, Thomas
 * Twain, Mark
 * Tyndale, William
 * Tyndall, John
 * Tytler, Alexander Fraser
 * Tytler, Patrick Fraser
 * Tytler, William

U

 * Udall, Nicolas
 * Underdown, Thomas
 * Underwood, Francis Henry
 * Urquhart, Sir Thomas
 * Usk, Thomas
 * Ussher, James

V

 * Vanbrugh, Sir John
 * Vaughan, Henry
 * Vaughan, Robert
 * Veitch, John
 * Very, Jones

W

 * Wace
 * Wade, Thomas
 * Wakefield, Gilbert
 * Wallace, Lewis
 * Waller, Edmund
 * Waller, John Francis
 * Walpole, Horatio or Horace
 * Walpole, Sir Spencer
 * Walton, Izaak
 * Warburton, Bartholomew Eliot George
 * Warburton, William
 * Ward, Robert Plumer
 * Ward, William George
 * Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady
 * Warner, Susan
 * Warner, William
 * Warren, Samuel
 * Warton, Joseph
 * Warton, Thomas
 * Waterland, Daniel
 * Waterton, Charles
 * Watson, John
 * Watson, Robert
 * Watson, Thomas
 * Watts, Alaric Alexander
 * Watts, Isaac
 * Waugh, Edwin
 * Webbe, William
 * Webster, Daniel
 * Webster, John
 * Webster, Mrs. Augusta
 * Webster, Noah
 * Wells, Charles Jeremiah
 * Wendover, Roger de
 * Wesley, Charles
 * Wesley, John
 * Westall, William
 * Wharton, Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquis of
 * Whateley, Richard
 * Whetstone, George
 * Whewell, William
 * Whichcote, Benjamin
 * Whipple, Edwin Percy
 * Whiston, William
 * White, Gilbert
 * White, Henry Kirke
 * White, Joseph Blanco
 * White, Richard Grant
 * Whitehead, Charles
 * Whitehead, William
 * Whitman, Walter or Walt
 * Whitney, William Dwight
 * Whittier, John Greenleaf
 * Whyte-Melville, George John
 * Wiclif, or Wyclif, John
 * Wilberforce, William
 * Wilcox, Carles
 * Wilde, Oscar O'Flaherty
 * Wilkes, John
 * Wilkie, William
 * Wilkins, John
 * Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner
 * William of Malmesbury
 * William of Newburgh, or Newbury
 * Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury
 * Willis, Browne
 * Willis, Nathaniel Parker
 * Wills, James
 * Wills, William Gorman
 * Wilson, Alexander
 * Wilson, John
 * Wilson, John (orientalist)
 * Wilson, John (poet)
 * Wilson, Sir Daniel
 * Wilson, Thomas
 * Wingate, David
 * Winthrop, Theodore
 * Wither, George
 * Wodrow, Robert
 * Wolcot, John
 * Wolfe, Charles
 * Wood, John George
 * Wood, Mrs. Ellen
 * Wood, or à Wood, Anthony
 * Woolman, John
 * Woolner, Thomas
 * Wordsworth, Christopher
 * Wordsworth, Christopher (biographer)
 * Wordsworth, Christopher (bishop)
 * Wordsworth, Dorothy
 * Wordsworth, William
 * Wotton, Sir Henry
 * Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel William
 * Wright, Thomas
 * Wyatt, Sir Thomas
 * Wycherley, William
 * Wyntoun, Andrew of

Y

 * Yalden, Thomas
 * Yates, Edmund
 * Yonge, Charlotte Mary
 * Young, Arthur
 * Young, Edward

Living Writers

 * /Appendix of Living Writers/