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Charles Dickens
male, deceased - Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as...
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Oscar Wilde
male, deceased - Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of...
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George Eliot
female, deceased - Mary Ann Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her...
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John Ruskin
male, deceased - John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author,...
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Elizabeth Gaskell
female, deceased - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She...
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Thomas Carlyle
male, deceased - Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly...
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Charlie Chaplin
male, deceased - Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. KBE (April 16, 1889 - December 25, 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comedy actor. Chaplin...
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Anthony Trollope
male, deceased - Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
female, deceased - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 - June 29, 1861) was a member of the Barrett family and one of the most respected poets of the Victorian...
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Lizzie Borden
female, deceased - Lizzie Andrew Borden was a New England spinster and central figure in the axe murders of her father and stepmother on August 4 1892 in Fall River,...
