Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Essayists, including Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Ruskin, T. S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley.

Famous 19th Century Essayists

Mark TwainMark Twain

30 November 1835

American

Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley

26 July 1894

British,American

Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson

13 November 1850

Scottish

John RuskinJohn Ruskin

08 February 1819

British

D. H. LawrenceD. H. Lawrence

11 September 1885

British

E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster

01 January 1879

British

Paul Thomas MannThomas Mann

06 June 1875

Swiss,German

Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold

24 December 1822

British

Henri BergsonHenri Bergson

18 October 1859

French

August StrindbergAugust Strindberg

22 January 1849

Swedish

vNikos Kazantzakis

18 February 1883

Greek

Knut HamsunKnut Hamsun

04 August 1859

Norwegian

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Henry LawsonHenry Lawson

17 June 1867

Australian

Katherine Anne PorterKatherine Anne Porter

15 May 1890

American

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

29 August 1809

American

Giuseppe UngarettiGiuseppe Ungaretti

08 February 1888

Italian

A.C BensonA. C. Benson

24 April 1862

British

Amy LevyAmy Levy

10 November 1861

British

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Abraham ValdelomarAbraham Valdelomar

27 April 1888

Peruvian

Alfred DoblinAlfred Doblin

10 August 1878

German

Maksim BahdanovičMaksim Bahdanovič

09 December 1891

Belarusian

Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle

22 May 1859

British

Cesare LombrosoCesare Lombroso

06 November 1835

Italian

Dorothy L. SayersDorothy L. Sayers

13 June 1893

British

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Paul VerlainePaul Verlaine

30 March 1844

French

Lu XunLu Xun

25 September 1881

Chinese

Corneliu Zelea CodreanuCorneliu Zelea Codreanu

13 September 1899

Romanian

Houston Stewart ChamberlainHouston Stewart Chamberlain

09 September 1855

German,British

Tristan TzaraTristan Tzara

16 April 1896

French

Harriet MartineauHarriet Martineau

12 June 1802

British

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Romain RollandRomain Rolland

29 January 1866

French

James Russell LowellJames Russell Lowell

22 February 1819

American

Lysander SpoonerLysander Spooner

19 January 1808

American

Hermann OberthHermann Oberth

25 June 1894

Austrian,Romanian

Maurice MaeterlinckMaurice Maeterlinck

29 August 1862

Belgian

Edmond RostandEdmond Rostand

01 April 1868

French

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Robert MusilRobert Musil

06 November 1880

Austrian

Osip MandelstamOsip Mandelstam

15 January 1891

Polish,Russian

Edmund WilsonEdmund Wilson

08 May 1895

American

Wilhelm BuschWilhelm Busch

15 April 1832

German

Curzio MalaparteCurzio Malaparte

09 June 1898

Italian

Emilia Pardo BazánEmilia Pardo Bazán

16 September 1851

Spanish

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Pierre LotiPierre Loti

14 January 1850

French

Sully PrudhommeSully Prudhomme

16 March 1839

French

Pär LagerkvistPär Lagerkvist

23 May 1891

Swedish

Léon BloyLéon Bloy

11 July 1846

French

Gottfried BennGottfried Benn

02 May 1886

German

Jean GiraudouxJean Giraudoux

29 October 1882

French

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Benjamin FondaneBenjamin Fondane

14 November 1898

French,Romanian

Fanny FernFanny Fern

09 July 1811

American

Robert CollierRobert Collier

19 April 1885

American

Mărgărita Miller-VerghyMărgărita Miller-Verghy

01 January 1865

Romanian

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