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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 Churchill
Charles Cotton
Charles 6th earl of Dorset Sackville
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 Chapman
George Farquhar
George Gascoigne
George Lillo
George Peele
George Puttenham
George Sandys
George Whetstone
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 Bickerstaffe
Izaak Walton
James Beattie
James Boswell
James Macpherson
James Shirley
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 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 Herrick
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
alabaster
William Alexander earl of Stirling
William Beckford
William Browne
William Cartwright
William Collins
William Congreve
William Dodd
William Drummond
William Falconer
William Hamilton
William King
William Mason
William Painter
William Rowley
William Shakespeare
William Shenstone
William Warner
William Whitehead
William Wotton
William Wycherley
James Thomson (1834-82)
Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
Thomas Randolph (poet)
Abraham Cowley
Eliza
Edward Fairfax
George Herbert
Sir David Lyndsay
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Edward de Vere
John Davies
George Cavendish
Thomas Tickell
Henry Brooke
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