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Essayists from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

30 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Alister HardyAuthor · BooksSir Alister Clavering Hardy FRSE (10 February 1896 – 22 May 1985) was a British marine biologist, an expert on marine ecosystems spanning organisms from zooplankton to whales.
Anna Laetitia BarbauldAuthor · BooksAnna Laetitia Barbauld (by herself possibly, as in French, Aikin; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's…
Austin DobsonAuthor · BooksIllustration — 1911 portrait of Dobson by Frank Brooks
Bertrand RussellAuthor · BooksBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an English philosopher, logician, mathematician, and social reformer.
Dinah CraikAuthor · BooksDinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock, often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik; 20 April 1826 – 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet.
Elizabeth BlackwellAuthor · BooksElizabeth Blackwell (3 February 182131 May 1910) was an English-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the…
Hannah MoreAuthor · BooksHannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English writer, philanthropist, poet and verse dramatist.
Harriet MartineauAuthor · BooksHarriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist.[2] She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte,…
James BeattieAuthor · BooksJames Beattie was a linguist, poet, translator, philosopher, writer and literary critic (1735–1803). He was born in Laurencekirk and died in Aberdeen.
Joseph ConradAuthor · BooksJoseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
Mary ShelleyAuthor · BooksMary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein;
Matthew ArnoldAuthor · BooksMatthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic.
Robert Louis StevensonAuthor · Books
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…
Thomas De QuinceyAuthor · BooksThomas Penson De Quincey (Thomas Penson Quincey; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English…
Thomas Robert MalthusAuthor · BooksThomas Robert Malthus (13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
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.
William HazlittArtist · PaintingsWilliam Hazlitt (10 April 177818 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher.

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