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Word Portraits of Famous Writers

by Mabel E. Wotton

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Joseph Addison 1672-1719
  3. 3Harrison Ainsworth 1805-1882
  4. 4Jane Austen 1775-1817
  5. 5Francis, Lord Bacon 1560-1-1626
  6. 6Joanna Baillie 1762-1851
  7. 7Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield 1804-1881
  8. 8Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832
  9. 9Richard Bentley 1662-1742
  10. 10James Boswell 1740-1795
  11. 11Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855
  12. 12Henry, Lord Brougham 1778-1868
  13. 13Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1809-1861
  14. 14John Bunyan 1628-1688
  15. 15Edmund Burke 1730-1797
  16. 16Robert Burns 1759-1796
  17. 17Samuel Butler 1612-1680
  18. 18George, Lord Byron 1788-1824
  19. 19Thomas Campbell 1777-1844
  20. 20Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
  21. 21Thomas Chatterton 1752-1770
  22. 22Geoffrey Chaucer — About 1340-1400
  23. 23Philip, Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773
  24. 24William Cobbett 1762-1835
  25. 25Hartley Coleridge 1796-1849
  26. 26Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834
  27. 27William Collins 1720-1756
  28. 28William Cowper 1731-1800
  29. 29George Crabbe 1754-1832
  30. 30Daniel de Foe 1661-1731
  31. 31Charles Dickens 1812-1870
  32. 32Isaac D’Israeli 1766-1848
  33. 33John Dryden 1631-1700
  34. 34Mary Anne Evans — (George Eliot) 1819-1880
  35. 35Henry Fielding 1707-1754
  36. 36John Gay 1688-1732
  37. 37Edward Gibbon 1737-1794
  38. 38William Godwin 1756-1836
  39. 39Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774
  40. 40David Gray 1838-1861
  41. 41Thomas Gray 1716-1771
  42. 42Henry Hallam 1777-1859
  43. 43William Hazlitt 1778-1830
  44. 44Felicia Hemans 1794-1835
  45. 45James Hogg 1770-1835
  46. 46Thomas Hood 1798-1845
  47. 47Theodore Hook 1788-1841
  48. 48David Hume 1711-1776
  49. 49Leigh Hunt 1784-1859
  50. 50Elizabeth Inchbald 1753-1821
  51. 51Francis, Lord Jeffrey 1773-1850
  52. 52Douglas Jerrold 1803-1857
  53. 53Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
  54. 54Ben Jonson 1574-1637
  55. 55John Keats 1795-1821
  56. 56John Keble 1792-1866
  57. 57Charles Kingsley 1812-1875
  58. 58Charles Lamb 1775-1834
  59. 59Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802-1838
  60. 60Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864
  61. 61Charles Lever 1806-1872
  62. 62Matthew Gregory Lewis 1775-1818
  63. 63John Gibson Lockhart 1794-1854
  64. 64Sir Richard Lovelace 1618-1658
  65. 65Edward, Lord Lytton 1803-1873
  66. 66Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800-1859
  67. 67William Maginn 1793-1842
  68. 68Francis Mahony — (Father Prout) 1805-1866
  69. 69Frederick Marryat 1792-1848
  70. 70Harriet Martineau 1802-1876
  71. 71Frederick Denison Maurice 1805-1872
  72. 72John Milton 1608-1674
  73. 73Mary Russell Mitford 1786-1855
  74. 74Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1690-1762
  75. 75Thomas Moore 1779-1852
  76. 76Hannah More 1745-1833
  77. 77Sir Thomas More 1480-1535
  78. 78Caroline Norton 1808-1877
  79. 79Thomas Otway 1651-1685
  80. 80Samuel Pepys 1632-1703
  81. 81Alexander Pope 1688-1744
  82. 82Bryan Waller Procter 1787-1874
  83. 83Thomas de Quincey 1786-1859
  84. 84Ann Radcliffe 1764-1823
  85. 85Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618
  86. 86Charles Reade 1814-1884
  87. 87Samuel Richardson 1689-1761
  88. 88Samuel Rogers 1763-1855
  89. 89Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882
  90. 90Richard Savage 1697-1743
  91. 91Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832
  92. 92William Shakespeare 1564-1616
  93. 93Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1798-1851
  94. 94Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
  95. 95Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816
  96. 96Sir Philip Sidney 1554-1587-8
  97. 97Horace Smith 1779-1849
  98. 98Sydney Smith 1771-1845
  99. 99Tobias Smollett 1721-1771
  100. 100Robert Southey 1774-1843
  101. 101Edmund Spenser 1553-1599
  102. 102Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 1815-1881
  103. 103Sir Richard Steele 1671-1729
  104. 104Laurence Sterne 1713-1768
  105. 105Sir John Suckling 1608-1641
  106. 106Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
  107. 107William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863
  108. 108James Thomson 1700-1748
  109. 109Anthony Trollope 1815-1882
  110. 110Edmund Waller 1605-1687
  111. 111Horace Walpole 1717-1797
  112. 112Izaac Walton 1593-1683
  113. 113John Wilson 1785-1854
  114. 114Ellen Wood — (Mrs. Henry Wood) 1814-1887
  115. 115William Wordsworth 1770-1850

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