Category:British Authors

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• Geoffrey Chaucer (M / Britain, 1340c-1400), poet
• John Bale (M / Britain, 1495-1563), playwright
• George Buchanan (M / Britain, 1506-1582), playwright
• Nicholas Grimald (M / Britain, 1519-1562), playwright
• John Dee (M / Britain, 1527-1608), occultist
• William Goldingham (M / Britain, 16th cent.), playwright
• Thomas Legge (M / Britain, 1535-1607), playwright
• Edward Kelley (M / Britain, 1555-1597), occultist
• John Smythe (M / Britain, 1563-1612), playwright
• William Shakespeare (M / Britain, 1564-1616), playwright
• Gervase Markham (M / Britain, 1568-1637), playwright
• William Percy (M / Britain, 1574–1648), playwright
• William Haughton (M / Britain, 1575-1605), playwright
• Elizabeth Cary (F / Britain, 1585-1639), playwright
• John Hilton the Younger (M / Britain, 1599-1657), composer
• William Sampson (M / Britain, c1600-c1660), playwright
• William Heminges (M / Britain, 1602-1653), playwright
• John Milton (M / Britain, 1608-1674), poet, playwright
• Cosmo Manuche (M / Britain, 1613-1673), playwright
• Roger Boyle (M / Britain, 1621-1679), playwright
• Jane Lead (F / Britain, 1623-1704), visionary
• Robert Burton (M / Britain, 1632-1725), novelist
• Samuel Pordage (M / Britain, 1633-1691), playwright
• John Crowne (M / British America, Britain, 1641-1712), playwright
• Thomas Otway (M / Britain, 1652-1685), playwright
• Henry Purcell (M / Britain, 1659-1695), composer
• Elijah Fenton (M / Britain, 1683-1730), playwright
• Georg Frideric Haendel (M / Germany, Britain, 1685-1759), composer
• Francis Peck (M / Britain, 1692-1742), poet
• Maurice Greene (M / Britain, 1696-1755), composer
• William Huggins (M / Britain, 1696-1761), librettist
• Benjamin Stillingfleet (M / Britain, 1702-1771), librettist
• Thomas Augustine Arne (M / Britain, 1710-1778), composer
• John Hoadly (M / Britain, 1711-1776), librettist, translator
• John Stanley (M / Britain, 1712-1786), composer
• Mary Collyer (F / Britain, 1716-1762), poet, translator
• Mary Latter (F / Britain, 1722-1777), playwright
• John Cameron (M / Britain, 1724-1799), novelist
• Mary Eleanor Bowes Strathmore (F / Britain, 1749-1800), playwright
• Thomas Linley the Younger (M / Britain, 1756–1778), composer
• Mrs E.M. Foster (F / Britain, 18th-19th cent.), novelist
• John Galt (M / Britain, 1779-1839), novelist
• Horace Smith (M / Britain, 1779-1849), novelist
• Chistian Isobel Johnstone (F / Britain, 1781-1857), novelist
• Charles Edward Horn (M / Britain, United States, 1786-1849), composer
• Thomas Smart Hughes (M / Britain, 1786-1847), poet
• Thomas Vowler Short (M / Britain, 1790-1872), novelist
• William Pace (M / Britain, 19th cent.), novelist
• Henry H. Milman (1791-1868), scholar, poet and playwright.
• Isaac Nathan (M / Britain, Australia, 1792-1864), composer
• John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854), novelist
• Nathaniel Ogle (1796-1858), novelist
• Richard Cobbold (1797-1877), novelist
• George Payne Rainsford James (1799-1860), novelist
• Jane Margaret Strickland (F / Britain, 1800-1888), novelist
• William Ball (1801-1878), playwright
• Harriet Martineau (F / Britain, 1802-1876), novelist
• Richard Henry Horne (1803-1884), playwright
• Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873), novelist
• Susanna Moodie (F / Britain, 1803-1885), novelist
• Henry Rich (1803-1869), playwright
• Elizabeth Harriet Siddons Mair (F / Britain, 1805-1877), novelist
• Annie Molyneux Peploe (F / Britain, 1805-1880), novelist
• George Alexander Macfarren (M / Britain, 1813-1887), composer
• Henry Solly (M / Britain, 1813-1903), playwright
• Edwin George Monk (M / Britain, 1819-1900), librettist
• Charlotte Maria Tucker (F / Britain, 1821-1893), novelist
• George Whyte-Melville (1821-1878), novelist
• Charlotte Mary Yonge (F / Britain, 1823-1901), novelist
• James Talboys Wheeler (1824-1897), novelist
• Elizabeth Rundle Charles (F / Britain, 1828-1896), novelist
• Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-1896), novelist
• George Walter Thornbury (M / Britain, 1828-1876), translator
• Alfred John Church (M / Britain, 1829-1912), novelist
• George Alfred Henty (1832-1902), novelist
• Sabine Baring-Gould (M / Britain, 1834-1924), novelist
• Philip Armes (M / Britain, 1836-1908), composer
• Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), novelist
• John Naylor (M / Britain, 1838-1897), composer
• Walter Pater (1839-1894), novelist
• John Stainer (M / Britain, 1840-1901), composer
• Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901), poet
• Alexander Mackenzie (M / Britain, 1844-1935), composer
• Albert Lister Peace (M / Britain, 1844-1912), composer
• Wilson Barrett (M / Britain, 1846-1904), playwright
• George Barlow (1847-1913), playwright
• C. Hubert H. Parry (M / Britain, 1848-1918), composer
• Frank Cowper (1849-1930), novelist
• M.E. Bewsher (F / Britain, 19th cent.), novelist
• John Bradshaw (19th cent.), novelist
• James W.T. Hart
• Hugh Westbury, novelist
• Robert Bird (M / Britain, 1854-1929), novelist
• S.L. MacGregor Mathers (1854-1918), occultist
• Marie Corelli (F / Britain, 1855-1924), novelist
• H. Rider Haggard (M / Britain, 1856-1925), novelist
• Edward Elgar (M / Britain, 1857-1934), composer
• Colin Campbell (M / Britain, United States, 1859-1928), film director
• Herbert Booth (M / Britain, Australia, 1862-1926), film director
• Joseph H. Perry (M / Britain, Australia, 1863-1943), film director
• Stephen Phillips (M / Britain, 1864-1915), playwright
• Lawrence Housman (M / Britain, 1865-1959), playwright
• Charles Joseph Finger (1869-1941), novelist
• T. Sturge Moore (M / Britain, 1870-1944), poet
• Henry Byatt
• John R. Carling, novelist
• Alfred Tresidder Sheppard (1871-1947), novelist
• Edith Olivier (M / Britain, 1872-1948), novelist
• Maurice Baring (1874-1945), novelist
• Gustav Holst (M / Britain, 1874-1934), composer
• J. Stuart Blackton (M / Britain, United States, 1875-1941), film director
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (M / Britain, 1875-1912), composer
• Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), occultist
• Paul P. Levertoff (1878-1954), scholar & translator
• John Masefield (1878-1967), playwright
• Ernest Sutherland Bates (1879-1939), novelist
• James Black (1879-1949), novelist
• Charles Bryant (M / Britain, United States, 1879-1948), film director
• Constance Crawley (F / Britain, 1879–1919), actor
• Harold Monro (1879-1932), poet
• Ernest Temple Thurston (1879-1933), playwright
• Arthur Maude (M / Britain, 1880-1950), actor, film director
• Frank Chenhalls Williams (1880-1965), novelist
• Cecily Spencer-Smith Phillimore
• George Dyson (M / Britain, 1883-1964), composer
• David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930), novelist
• Maurice Elvey (M / Britain, 1887-1967), film director
• Victor MacClure (1887-1963), novelist
• Bertram Brooker (M / Britain, Canada, 1888-1955), novelist
• Ronald A. Knox (1888-1957), novelist
• Emile Burns (1889-1972), translator
• Gerald Heard (1889-1971), novelist
• Claude Rains (M / Britain, United States, 1889-1967), actor
• Douglas J. Boyle
• Izak Goller (1891-1939), playwright
• Ursula Bloom (F / Britain, 1892-1984), novelist
• Dorothy L. Sayers (F / Britain, 1893-1957), playwright
• Robert Graves (1895-1985), novelist
• Victor Saville (M / Britain, 1895-1979), film director
• Irvin Rapper (M / Britain, United States, 1898-1999), film director
• Eric Linklater (1899-1974), novelist
• Cecil Roth (1899-1970), scholar and novelist
• Donald Carter (M / Britain, 1900-....), film director
• Elizabeth Goudge (F / Britain, 1900-1984), novelist
• Catherine Christian (F / Britain, 1901-1985), novelist
• Roger Bradshaigh Lloyd (1901-1966), novelist
• William Walton (M / Britain, 1902-1983), composer
• Louis De Wohl (M / Germany, Britain, 1903-1961), novelist
• Thomas Rowland Hughes (1903-1949), novelist
• William Plomer (M / Britain, 1903-1973), librettist
• George Sava (M / Russia, Britain, 1903-1996), novelist
• Norah Lofts (F / Britain, 1904-1983), novelist
• Pamela Frankau (1908-1967), novelist
• Georg Solti / György Stern (M / Hungary, Britain, 1912-1997), conductor
• Benjamin Britten (M / Britain, 1913-1976), composer
• Robert S. De Ropp (1913-1987), novelist
• Richard Lewis (M / Britain, 1914-1990), singer
• Kenneth Bulmer (1919-2005), novelist
• David Kossoff (1919-2005), novelist
• Graham Simmans (1919-2005), arch-fi author
• Patrick Troughton (M / Britain, 1920–1987), actor
• Merton Finch (1921-2015), novelist
• Leon Garfield (1921-1966), novelist
• David Greene (M / Britain, United States, 1921-2003), film director
• James Martin (M / Britain, 1921-2019), novelist
• Nicholas Mosley (M / Britain, 1923-2017), novelist
• Edward Downes (M / Britain, 1924-2009), conductor
• Edmund Purdom (M / Britain, United States, Italy, 1924-2009), actor
• Ken Thorne (M / Britain, 1924-2014), film composer
• Hilary Douglas C. Pepler (1878-1951), playwright
• Isabel Quigly (F / Britain, 1926-2018), translator
• Rosemary Haughton (F / Britain, United States, 1927), novelist
• Norman Kay (M / Britain, 1929-2001), composer
• William Rayner (M / Britain, 1929-2006), novelist
• Peter Van Greenaway (M / Britain, 1929-1988), novelist
• James Cellan-Jones (M / Britain, 1931-2019), film director
• Derek Bailey (M / Britain, 1934), film director
• Peter Maxwell Davies (M / Britain, 1934-2016), composer
• Peter Dickinson (M / Britain, 1934), composer
• Brian Kelly (M / Britain, 1934), composer
• Andrew Sanders (M / Hungary, Britain, 1934), novelist
• Daniel Gavron (M / Britain, Israel, 1935), novelist
• David Gurney (M / Britain, 1935), novelist
• Jenny Koralek (F / Britain, 1935-2017), novelist
• Carl Davis (M / United States, Britain, 1936), film composer
• Steven Berkoff (M / Britain, 1937), film director
• Kevin Connor (M / Britain, 1937), film director
• Anthony Hopkins (M / Britain, 1937), actor
• Stuart Wilson (M / Britain, 1937), visionary
• Anne Perry (F / Britain, 1938), novelist
• Jeffrey Archer (1940-), novelist
• Howard Brenton (1942-), playwright
• Terry Jones (M / Britain, 1942), film director
• Anita Mason (F / Britain, 1942), novelist
• Laurence Gardner (M / Britain, 1943-2010), arch-fi author
• Peter Longley (b.1944), novelist
• Paul Nicholas (M / Britain, 1944), singer, actor
• Robert Powell (M / Britain, 1944), actor
• Tim Rice (M / Britain, 1944), librettist
• Ian Gillan (b.1945), singer