British writers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries

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    James Thomson

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    Henry Fielding

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    Samuel Johnson

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    Laurence Sterne

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    Thomas Gray

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    Tobias Smollett

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    Christopher Smart

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    Arthur Murphy

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    Oliver Goldsmith

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    William Cowper

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    Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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    Thomas Chatterton

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    William Blake

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    Robert Burns

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    William Wordsworth

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    Walter Scott

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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    Robert Southey

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    Jane Austen

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    Thomas De Quincey

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    Lord Byron

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley

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    John Clare

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    John Keats

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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    Elizabeth Gaskell

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    William Makepeace Thackeray

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    Charles Dickens

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    Robert Browning

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    Anthony Trollope

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    Charlotte Brontë

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    Emily Brontë

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    Arthur Clough

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    George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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    Anne Brontë

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    Matthew Arnold

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    Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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    George Meredith

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    Lewis Carroll

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    W. S. Gilbert

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    Thomas Hardy

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins

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    Robert Louis Stevenson

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    Oscar Wilde

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    George Bernard Shaw

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    George Gissing

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    Joseph Conrad

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    A. E. Housman

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    H. G. Wells

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    Walter de la Mare

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    Edward Thomas

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    John Masefield

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    Hugh Lofting

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    Dame Agatha Christie

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    Dorothy L. Sayers

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    Enid Blyton

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    Georgette Heyer

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    John Wyndham

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    Mary Norton

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    Cecil Day-Lewis

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    Margery Allingham

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    T. H. White

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    Louis MacNeice

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    W. H. Auden

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    Mervyn Peake

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    Alun Lewis

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    Keith Douglas

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    Alistair MacLean

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    Philip Larkin

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    Charles Tomlinson

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    Lamming

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    Harold Pinter

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    J. G. Ballard

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    Ted Hughes

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    Geoffrey Hill

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    Kenneth Grahame

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    Sir V. S. Naipaul

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    Michael Frayn

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    Alasdair Gray

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    Tony Harrison

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    Tom Stoppard

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    Tom Stoppard

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    Frederick Forsyth

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    Michael Longley

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    Barker

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    David Hare

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    David Edgar

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    Ian McEwan

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    Sir Terry Pratchett

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    Ken Follett

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    Martin Amis

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    Hanif Kureshi

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    A. L. Kennedy

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    J. K. Rowling