HomeAuthors Authors (165) In this month… We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary. Giovanni Boccaccio DIED THIS WEEK IN 1375 While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. Find out more Henry Gilbert BORN THIS WEEK IN 1868 Some people doubted whether Robin Hood ever existed.But I am sure that Robin was once very much alive Find out more Victor Hugo BORN THIS WEEK IN 1802 Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Find out more John Keats DIED TOMORROW IN 1821 The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Find out more James Malcolm Rymer DIED THIS WEEK IN 1884 And well did they deserve their reputation, those delicious pies. Find out more FILTERS NATIONALITY American Australian Austrian British Canadian Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English French German Greek Indian Irish Italian Lebanese New Zealander Roman Russian Scottish Spanish Swiss USA Welsh CENTURY BC 11TH CENTURY12TH CENTURY13TH CENTURY14TH CENTURY15TH CENTURY16TH CENTURY17TH CENTURY18TH CENTURY19TH CENTURY20TH CENTURY A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T V W Y RESET FILTERS Aesop Louisa May Alcott Abdullah Yusuf Ali Hans Christian Andersen Aristotle Jane Austen J.M. Barrie L. Frank Baum E. F. Benson R.D. Blackmore Algernon Blackwood William Blake Giovanni Boccaccio Mary Elizabeth Braddon Anne Brontë Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Buchan John Bunyan Frances Hodgson Burnett Robert Burns Lord Byron Lewis Carroll Miguel de Cervantes Robert W. Chambers Geoffrey Chaucer Anton Chekhov G.K. Chesterton Kate Chopin Carl von Clausewitz Wilkie Collins Carlo Collodi Joseph Conrad Susan Coolidge James Fenimore Cooper Aleister Crowley Dante Alighieri Charles Darwin David Stuart Davies Daniel Defoe Rene Descartes Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson Fyodor Dostoevsky Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Alexandre Dumas George Eliot Friedrich Engels J. Meade Falkner Henry Fielding F. Scott Fitzgerald Gustave Flaubert Ford Madox Ford Sigmund Freud John Galsworthy Elizabeth Gaskell Edward Gibbon Kahlil Gibran Henry Gilbert Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nikolai Gogol Kenneth Grahame Rosemary Gray The Brothers Grimm George and Weedon Grossmith Sir Henry Rider Haggard Radclyffe Hall Thomas Hardy Nathaniel Hawthorne Ernest Hemingway O. Henry Herodotus Thomas Hobbes Homer Thomas Hughes Victor Hugo David Hume Joseph Jacobs Henry James M.R. James Jerome K. Jerome James Joyce Franz Kafka John Keats John Maynard Keynes Charles Kingsley Rudyard Kipling Charles and Mary Lamb Andrew Lang D.H. Lawrence T.E. Lawrence Sheridan Le Fanu Edward Lear Gaston Leroux Matthew Lewis John Locke Jack London H.P. Lovecraft Terry Lynch George MacDonald Arthur Machen Niccolò Machiavelli Sir Thomas Malory Katherine Mansfield Captain Frederick Marryat Karl Marx Guy de Maupassant Henry Mayhew Herman Melville Lucy Montgomery Sir Thomas More Hector Hugh Munro E. Nesbit Friedrich Nietzsche George Orwell Thomas Paine Plato Edgar Allan Poe Eleanor H. Porter Beatrix Potter Arthur Rackham Ann Radcliffe Christina Rossetti Jean-Jacques Rousseau James Malcolm Rymer Antoine de Saint-Exupery Sir Walter Scott Anna Sewell William Shakespeare Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Adam Smith Benedict Spinoza Johanna Spyri Flora Annie Steel Laurence Sterne Robert Louis Stevenson Bram Stoker Harriet Beecher Stowe Jonathan Swift Alfred, Lord Tennyson William Makepeace Thackeray Dylan Thomas Alexis de Tocqueville Leo Tolstoy Robert Tressell Anthony Trollope Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Mark Twain Lao Tzu Sun Tzu Jules Verne Virgil Voltaire Lew Wallace H.G. Wells Edith Wharton Walt Whitman Oscar Wilde Margery Williams Bianco Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Shang Yang W.B. Yeats Articles related to Authors Apr30 Gore by Proxy: The Penny Dreadfuls. Part Two The final part of David Stuart Davies’ story of the rise and fall of the ‘Penny Dreadful’. Read More Jul19 Mia Forbes looks at The Odyssey Time in the Odyssey – Mia Forbes looks at the second epic ancient Greek poem attributed to Homer Read More Nov16 Jack the Ripper – The Killer and His Crimes It was in November 1888 that the final grisly murder took place attributed to ‘The Whitechapel Murderer’, now commonly known as ‘Jack the Ripper’. In the Part One of a two-part article, David Stuart Davies looks at the history behind this notorious killer. Read More Jun7 Celebrating 25 Years of Wordsworth Classics It’s a quarter of a century since the launch of the Wordsworth £1 Classic Read More Aug6 A Princess in the Attic Denise Hanrahan-Wells looks at Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic Children’s Story I first came across A Little Princess through the 1973 BBC adaptation and was immediately captivated by it. I am… Read More Feb5 Sally Minogue looks at The Little Prince How do we read a fable? Sally Minogue ponders the mysteries of ‘The Little Prince’ Read More
