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19th-century essayists

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Mikhail OsorginAuthor · BooksMikhail Andreyevich Osorgin (real last name Ilyin (Ильи́н); 19 October 1878 – 27 November 1942) was a writer, journalist, and essayist born in the Russian Empire.
Miroslav KrležaAuthor · BooksMiroslav Krleža (7 July 1893 – 29 December 1981) was a Croatian writer, widely considered to be the greatest of the 20th century.
Mohammad-Taqi BaharAuthor · Books
Motiram BhattaAuthor · BooksMotiram Bhatta (1866–1896) was a Nepalese poet, singer, essayist, publisher, literary critic and biographer.
Nolini Kanta GuptaAuthor · BooksIllustration — Nolini Kanta Gupta
Octave PirmezAuthor · BooksOctave Pirmez (1832 – May 1883) was a Belgian author born in Châtelineau.
Oscar MiloszAuthor · BooksOscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz (Oskaras Milašius; Oskar Władysław Miłosz) (28 May 1877 or 15 May 1877 – 2 March 1939) was a French language poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and…
Osip MandelstamAuthor · BooksOsip Emilyevich Mandelstam (14 January 1891 – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school.
Pär LagerkvistAuthor · BooksPär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May 1891 – 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Paul ClaudelAuthor · BooksPaul Claudel (6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel.
Paul VerlaineAuthor · BooksPaul Marie Verlaine (lang; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet, writer and critic associated with the Symbolist, Parnassianist and Decadent movements.
Philippe SoupaultAuthor · BooksIllustration — Portrait of Philippe Soupault by Robert Delaunay (1922)
Pierre LotiPhotographer · PhotographyPierre Loti (lang; pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud; 14 January 1850 – 10 June 1923) was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories.
Rabindranath TagoreAuthor · BooksRabindranath Tagore FRAsS (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of…
Ralph Waldo EmersonAuthor · BooksRalph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the…
Ramón Otero PedrayoAuthor · BooksIllustration — Ramón Otero Pedrayo.
Randolph BourneAuthor · BooksRandolph Silliman Bourne (May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University.
Raymond SabouraudArtist · SculptureRaymond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud (24 November 1864 – 4 February 1938) was a French physician born in Nantes.
René BoylesveAuthor · BooksRené Boylesve (ʁəne bwalɛv; 14 April 1867 in La Haye-Descartes – 14 January 1926 in Paris), born René Marie Auguste Tardiveau (ʁəne maʁi oɡyst taʁdivo), was a French writer and a literary…
Richard von SchaukalAuthor · BooksIllustration — Richard von Schaukal, 1924
Riichi YokomitsuAuthor · BooksRiichi Yokomitsu (横光利一, Yokomitsu Riichi) was an experimental, modernist Japanese writer.
Robert Louis StevensonAuthor · Books
Rosa MayrederAuthor · BooksRosa Mayreder was an Austrian writer, librettist, pastellist, painter, editor and musician (1858–1938). She was born in Vienna.
Rosina Bulwer LyttonAuthor · BooksRosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton, (née Doyle Wheeler; 4 November 1802 – 12 March 1882) was an Anglo-Irish writer who published fourteen novels, a volume of essays, and a volume of…
Rudolf LeonhardAuthor · BooksRudolf Leonhard (27 October 1889, in Lissa, German Empire (today Leszno, Poland) – 19 December 1953, in East Berlin) was a German author and communist activist.
Salvador de MadariagaAuthor · BooksSalvador de Madariaga y Rojo (23 July 1886 – 14 December 1978) was a Spanish "eminent liberal", diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature…
Santiago ArcosIllustrator · IllustrationIllustration — Santiago Arcos
Sergio SolmiAuthor · BooksSergio Solmi (16 December 1899 – 7 October 1981) was an Italian poet, essayist and literary critic.
Simon VestdijkAuthor · BooksSimon Vestdijk (17 October 1898 – 23 March 1971) was a Dutch writer.
Stanisław PrzybyszewskiAuthor · BooksStanisław Przybyszewski (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf pʂɨbɨˈʂɛfskʲi]; 7 May 1868 – 23 November 1927) was a Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet of the decadent naturalistic school.
Sully PrudhommeAuthor · BooksRené François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme (16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901.
Swami VivekanandaAuthor · BooksSwami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic…
T. S. EliotAuthor · Books
Teresa González de FanningAuthor · BooksTeresa González de Fanning (Nepeña District, Ancash Region, Peru, 12 August 1836 - Miraflores District, Lima, 7 April 1918) was a Peruvian writer and journalist notable for her activism in…
Theodor von SickelAuthor · BooksTheodor von Sickel (18 December 1826 – 21 April 1908) was a German-Austrian historian born in Aken, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia.
Thomas MannPerson · Music memorabiliaPaul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
Tibor DéryAuthor · BooksTibor Déry (18 October 1894 in Budapest – 18 August 1977 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer and poet. He also wrote under the names Tibor Dániel and Pál Verdes.
Toru DuttAuthor · BooksTarulatta Datta, popularly known as Toru Dutt (4 March 1856 – 30 August 1877) was an Indian Bengali poet and translator from British India, who wrote in English and French.
Valery LarbaudAuthor · BooksValery Larbaud (29 August 1881 – 2 February 1957) was a French writer and poet.
Vernon LeeAuthor · BooksViolet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935), known by the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British art historian and writer.
Virginia WoolfAuthor · BooksAdeline Virginia Woolf ("wolf";[1] Stephen; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors.
Voltairine de CleyreAuthor · BooksVoltairine de Cleyre (De Claire; November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist feminist writer and public speaker.
Walt WhitmanAuthor · BooksWalter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels.
Walther RathenauAuthor · BooksWalther Rathenau (29 September 1867 – 24 June 1922) was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February 1922 until his assassination in…
Wilfrid LaurierAuthor · BooksSir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier (November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911.
Wilhelm BuschIllustrator · IllustrationHeinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (14 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter.
Yaeko NogamiAuthor · Books6 May 1885 – 30 March 1985 was the pen-name of a novelist of the Shōwa period Japan. Her maiden name was Kotegawa Yae.
Zhu ZiqingAuthor · Books

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