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  • Henry Fielding

    Dramatist, novelist and journalist. Wrote The History of Tom Jones, considered by critics to be one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. Includes short biography. (1707-1754)

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  • Daniel Defoe

    Novelist and political journalist. Published over 560 books and pamphlets and is considered to be the founder of British journalism. Includes short biography. (1660-1731)

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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Poet, critic and philosopher. Includes short biography and portrait. (1772-1834)

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  • Lord Byron

    Became one of England's leading poets with his Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Member of the House of Lords. Includes short biography and portrait. (1788-1824)

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  • William Hazlitt

    Essayist and critic. Includes short biography, photo and excerpts of his political writing.

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  • James Leigh Hunt

    Essayist, poet and editor. Includes biography and photo.(1784-1859)

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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Became involved in radical politics and wrote many articles and pamphlets, and poetry. Lost at sea while sailing to meet Leigh Hunt. Includes biography, excerpts from his works and photo. (1792-1822)

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  • Robert Southey

    Appointed poet laureate in 1813. Author of several books including: The Book of the Church, Sir Thomas More, Essays Moral and Political and Lives of British Admirals. Includes biography and portrait. (1774-1843)

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  • William Makepeace Thackeray

    Born in Calcutta, India. Returned to England with his parents and became a journalist and novelist. Wrote Vanity Fair, considered to be his best work, followed by The History of Henry Esmond, Newcomes, and The Virginians. (1811-1863)

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  • Thomas Carlyle

    Scottish essayist and historian. Includes short biography and photo. (1795-1881)

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  • Henry Mayhew

    Joint editor for Punch Magazine and journalist for the Morning Chronicle. Includes biography, excerpts from his writing and photo. (1812-87)

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  • Charles Dickens

    Wrote newspaper articles to advocate social reform, and novels. Includes short biography and excerpts from his work. (1812-1870)

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  • Charles Lamb

    Essayist and critic. Includes short biography and portrait. (1775-1834)

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  • Douglas Jerrold

    Resident playwright at the Coburg Theatre in London. As a journalist, wrote a large number of political and humorous articles for Punch Magazine during a sixteen year period, and worked as a sub-editor, under Charles Dickens, on the Daily News. (1803-1857)

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  • Elizabeth Gaskell

    Novelist, who advocated social reform in Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life. Includes short biography, excerpts from her writings and photo. (1810-1865)

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