HomeAuthors Authors (165) In this month… We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary. Charlotte Brontë DIED THIS WEEK IN 1855 The human heart has hidden treasures Find out more Rene Descartes BORN THIS WEEK IN 1596 I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Find out more Nikolai Gogol BORN THIS WEEK IN 1809 Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. Find out more Andrew Lang BORN THIS WEEK IN 1844 In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself. Find out more Anna Sewell BORN THIS WEEK IN 1820 We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. Find out more Virginia Woolf DIED THIS WEEK IN 1941 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. 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 Sep28 Back to School with Anne of Avonlea Denise Hanrahan-Wells looks at Anne of Avonlea, the sequel to Anne of Green Gables. ‘Oh, will I ever learn to stop and reflect a little before doing reckless things? Mrs… Read More May28 The pleasures of James Joyce Professor Cedric Watts on the pleasures of reading James Joyce: Read More Jun22 ‘Eveline’s Visitant’ ‘Strange reports had gone forth about me; and there were those who whispered that I had given my soul to the Evil One…’ ‘Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a contemporary of… Read More Jan27 The Personal History of David Copperfield As Armando Iannucci’s new film hits the screens, Sally Minogue celebrates its Dickensian exuberance. Read More 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 Jul8 David Stuart Davies looks at The Awakening David Stuart Davies looks at Kate Chopin’s influential novel, first published in 1899. Read More
