Find out more about the greatest 19th Century British Novelists, including Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley and Arthur Conan Doyle.
J. R. R. Tolkien03 January 1892
Writer
Charles Dickens07 February 1812
Writer
Virginia Woolf25 January 1882
Novelist
C. S. Lewis29 November 1898
Novelist
H. G. Wells21 September 1866
Writer
Aldous Huxley26 July 1894
Writer
D. H. Lawrence11 September 1885
Novelist
Joseph Conrad03 December 1857
Writer
Emily Brontë30 July 1818
Novelist
E. M. Forster01 January 1879
Writer
J. B. Priestley13 September 1894
Novelist and Playwright
Anne Brontë17 January 1820
Writer
Robert Graves24 July 1895
Poet & Novelist
Elizabeth Gaskell29 September 1810
Novelist
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Robert W. Service16 January 1874
Poet & Writer
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle22 May 1859
Writer & Physician
Caroline Norton22 March 1808
Author
William Maugham25 January 1874
Novelist & Playwright
Charlotte Bronte21 April 1816
Novelist
Rose Macaulay01 August 1881
Writer
Amy Levy10 November 1861
Poet, Novelist, Essayist
A.P. Herbert24 September 1890
Humorist, Novelist, Playwright & Law Reform
Sir James Matthew Barrie09 May 1860
Writer
Percy Bysshe Shelley04 August 1792
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwright,
Arthur Conan Doyle22 May 1859
Physician, Writer, Poet, Cricketer, Novelist,
John Henry Newman21 February 1801
Theologian
Victoria Cross01 October 1868
Writer
G. K. Chesterton29 May 1874
Journalist, Poet, Novelist, Autobiographer,
W. Somerset Maugham25 January 1874
Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter
Vita Sackville-West09 March 1892
Writer
Stefan Zweig28 November 1881
Writer, Translator, Journalist, Playwright, Poet,
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti12 May 1828
Poet, Illustrator, Painter, Writer, Artist,
Dorothy L. Sayers13 June 1893
Writer, Translator, Novelist, Playwright,
Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849
Dramaturge, Writer, Playwright, Children's writer,
George MacDonald10 December 1824
Writer, Minister, Poet, Novelist, Cleric
Grey Owl18 September 1888
Writer, Novelist
Vera Brittain29 December 1893
Nurse, Writer, Poet, Novelist, Feminist, Pacifist,
Jean Rhys24 August 1890
Writer
Kenneth Grahame08 March 1859
Writer, Novelist, Children's writer
Anna Sewell30 March 1820
Writer, Novelist, Children's writer
Josephine Tey25 July 1896
Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter,
Wyndham Lewis18 November 1882
Painter, Writer, Journalist, Editor, Novelist
Elinor Glyn17 October 1864
Actor, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter
Elizabeth von Arnim31 August 1866
Writer, Novelist
Edwin Abbott Abbott20 December 1838
Theologian, Science fiction writer, Teacher,
Eric Temple Bell07 February 1883
Mathematician, Historian of mathematics, Novelist,
Alec Waugh08 July 1898
Novelist, Writer
Alfred Austin30 May 1835
Poet, Novelist, Writer, Journalist
Samuel Butler04 December 1835
Novelist
Gladys Bronwyn Stern17 June 1890
Journalist, Novelist, Literary critic, Biographer
John Boynton Priestley13 September 1894
Amelia Barr29 March 1831
Novelist
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm24 August 1872
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton25 May 1803
Writer
Marge Kennedy12 April 1896
Phyllis Forbes Dennis31 May 1884
Sir. James Matthew Barrie09 May 1860