Find out more about the greatest 18th Century Novelists, including Voltaire, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Marquis de Sade and Denis Diderot.
Mary Shelley30 August 1797, British
Novelist
Voltaire21 November 1694, French
Writer
Marquis de Sade02 June 1740, French
Erotic Novelist
Walter Scott15 August 1771, Scottish
Novelist
Honoré de Balzac20 May 1799, French
French Novelist and Playwright
William Hazlitt10 April 1778, British
English Writer & Literary Critic
Henry Fielding22 April 1707, British
Writer
Stendhal23 January 1783, French
Writer
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728, Irish, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
Thomas De Quincey15 August 1785, British
Essayist
Jean Paul21 March 1763, German
Writer
Frances Burney13 June 1752, British
Novelist
Alfred de Vigny27 March 1797, French
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Percy Bysshe Shelley04 August 1792, British
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwright,
Alexander Pushkin06 June 1799, Russian
Poet
Denis Diderot05 October 1713, French
Philosopher, Novelist, Essayist, Encyclopédistes,
Lady Caroline Lamb13 November 1785, British
Poet, Writer, Novelist
Horace Walpole24 September 1717
Writer, Novelist, Autobiographer, Politician
François-René de Chateaubriand04 September 1768, French
Writer, Politician, Diplomat, Historian, Poet,
Samuel Richardson19 August 1689, British
Writer, Novelist
Laurence Sterne24 November 1713, British
Writer, Novelist, Autobiographer, Religious
Heinrich von Kleist18 October 1777, German
Playwright, Poet, Short story writer, Novelist,
James Hogg09 December 1770
Poet, Writer, Novelist, Biographer, Songwriter
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos18 October 1741, French
Writer, Inventor, Novelist, Officer
Giovanni Battista Belzoni05 November 1778, Italian
Explorer, Antiquarian, Egyptologist,
Cao Xueqin12 July 1724, Chinese
writer, poet, painter, novelist
Bettina von Arnim04 April 1785, German
Writer, Salon-holder, Composer, Novelist
Pierre de Marivaux04 February 1688, French
Playwright, Writer, Journalist, Novelist
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington01 September 1789, British
Poet, Writer