Category:British Authors
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List of British Authors (in chronological order).
In Depth
- British Fiction -- survey of works by A Authors
See also: United Kingdom -- British -- English language -- British Scholars -- British Scholarship
Pages in category "British Authors"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 229 total.
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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