Topics for "English Literature, 1500 to 1799: Biographies":

• Alexander Barclay

• Alexander Montgomerie

• Alexander Pope

• Alexander Selkirk

• Allan Ramsay

• Ambrose Philips

• Andrew Marvell

• Ann (Ward) Radcliffe

• Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld

• Anna Seward

• Anne Finch countess of Winchilsea

• Anthony Munday

• Aphra Behn

• Arthur Golding

• Barnabe Barnes

• Barnabe Googe

• Ben Jonson

• Bernard Mandeville

• Charles 6th earl of Dorset Sackville

• Charles Churchill

• Charles Cotton

• Christopher Anstey

• Christopher Marlowe

• Christopher Smart

• Clara Reeve

• Cyril Tourneur

• Daniel Defoe

• Dorothy Osborne

• Edmund Spenser

• Edmund Waller

• Edward Capell

• Edward de Vere 17th earl of Oxford

• Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

• Edward Moore

• Edward Young

• Eliza (Fowler) Haywood

• Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu

• Elizabeth Carter

• Elizabeth Inchbald

• Elkanah Settle

• Erasmus Darwin

• Fanny Burney

• Francis Beaumont

• Francis Quarles

• Fulke Greville 1st Baron Brooke

• Gabriel Harvey

• George Bannatyne

• George Chapman

• George Farquhar

• George Gascoigne

• George Lillo

• George Peele

• George Puttenham

• George Sandys

• George Wither

• Gervase Markham

• Giles Fletcher

• Hannah Cowley

• Henry Carey

• Henry Constable

• Henry Fielding

• Henry Howard earl of Surrey

• Henry King

• Henry Lawes

• Henry Mackenzie

• Henry Peacham

• Henry Vaughan

• Hester Lynch Thrale

• Horace Walpole 4th earl of Orford

• Hugh Kelly

• Isaac Bickerstaff

• Isaac Bickerstaffe

• Izaak Walton

• James Beattie

• James Boswell

• James Macpherson

• James Shirley

• James Thomson (1700-1748)

• Jane Austen

• John Arbuthnot

• John Aubrey

• John Bale

• John Bunyan

• John Byrom

• John Cleland

• John Cleveland

• John Crowne

• John Day

• John Dennis

• John Donne

• John Dryden

• John Dyer

• John Earle

• John Evelyn

• John Fletcher

• John Florio

• John Ford (England)

• John Gay

• John Hawkesworth

• John Heywood

• John Leland

• John Lyly

• John Marston

• John Milton

• John Newbery

• John Philips

• John Skelton

• John Taylor

• John Webster

• John Wilmot 2d earl of Rochester

• John Wilson

• John Wolcot

• Jonathan Swift

• Joseph Addison

• Joseph Hall

• Joseph Warton

• Katherine (Fowler) Philips

• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

• Lady Penelope Rich

• Laurence Sterne

• Lewis Theobald

• Lord James Burnett Monboddo

• Mark Akenside

• Mary Herbert countess of Pembroke

• Matthew Green

• Matthew Gregory Lewis

• Matthew Prior

• Michael Drayton

• Nahum Tate

• Nathaniel Lee

• Nicholas Breton

• Nicholas Grimald

• Nicholas Rowe

• Nicholas Udall

• Oliver Goldsmith

• Philip Dormer Stanhope 4th earl of Chesterfield

• Richard Barnfield

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• Richard Brome

• Richard Crashaw

• Richard Hurd

• Richard Lovelace

• Richard Savage

• Robert Blair

• Robert Burns

• Robert Burton

• Robert Dodsley

• Robert Fergusson

• Robert Greene

• Robert Southwell

• Roger North

• Samuel Daniel

• Samuel Johnson

• Samuel Pepys

• Samuel Purchas

• Samuel Richardson

• Sir Charles Sedley

• Sir David Lindsay

• Sir Edward Dyer

• Sir George Etherege

• Sir Henry Wotton

• Sir John Cheke

• Sir John Davies

• Sir John Denham

• Sir John Harington

• Sir John Suckling

• Sir John Vanbrugh

• Sir Philip Sidney

• Sir Richard Steele

• Sir Samuel Garth

• Sir Thomas Browne

• Sir Thomas Elyot

• Sir Thomas More

• Sir Thomas North

• Sir Thomas Overbury

• Sir Thomas Urquhart

• Sir Thomas Wyatt (poet)

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Sir William DAvenant

• Stephen Gosson

• Stephen Hawes

• Thomas Carew

• Thomas Chatterton

• Thomas Churchyard

• Thomas Coryate

• Thomas Dekker

• Thomas Deloney

• Thomas Gray

• Thomas Heywood

• Thomas Holcroft

• Thomas Killigrew

• Thomas Kyd

• Thomas Lodge

• Thomas May

• Thomas Middleton

• Thomas Nashe

• Thomas Otway

• Thomas Parnell

• Thomas Rymer

• Thomas Sackville 1st earl of Dorset

• Thomas Shadwell

• Thomas Southerne

• Thomas Sprat

• Thomas Traherne

• Thomas Tyrwhitt

• Thomas Warton

• Thomas Watson

• Tobias George Smollett

• William Alexander earl of Stirling

• William Beckford

• William Browne

• William Cartwright

• William Collins

• William Congreve

• William Dodd

• William Drummond

• William Falconer

• William Hamilton

• William Mason

• William Painter

• William Rowley

• William Shakespeare

• William Shenstone

• William Warner

• William Whitehead

• William Wotton

• William Wycherley