Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

male, deceased (1400)
from the City of London, buried at Westminster Abbey, author, bureaucracy, English, Civil Servant…Middle English, Middle English poet, english poetry, englishliterature, English Poets Laureate
Geoffrey Chaucer -- courtier, diplomat, and poet -- is arguably one of the most important figures in English literature. His philosophically...
Walter Scott

Walter Scott

male, deceased (1832)
Scottish historical novelist, the lady of the lake, waverley, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, englishliterature, Scottish…Scottish literature, English-language literature
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe...
William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

male, deceased (1850)
Sonneteers, English, From Cumberland, Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge, Lyrical Ballads, Romantic Age…English Poets Laureate, englishliterature
William Wordsworth was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with...
John Keats

John Keats

male, deceased (1821)
negative capability, Sonneteers, alfred tennyson, englishliterature, English, death by tuberculosis
John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from...
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

male, deceased (1894)
Scottish historical novelist, British non-fiction outdoors writer, from Napa County, California, islomaniac, death by cerebral hemorrhage, From Edinburgh…englishliterature
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson, was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English...
Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

female, deceased (1855)
Yorkshirewoman, English women writer, Women novelist, From West Yorkshire, Christian, writer…englishliterature, English
Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855) was an English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become en...
J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

male, deceased (1973)
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, author, writer, the silmarillion, middle-earth…englishliterature, Old English language, English language and literature, Old English, English
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the au...

Emily Brontë

female, deceased (1848)
died of tuberculosis, Wuthering Heights, Yorkshirewoman, English women writer, Women novelist, Brontë sister…English, englishliterature
Emily Jane Brontë was a British novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel "Wuthering Heights", a classic of English literature. E...
Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

female, 50 years old
organic food, Magic realism writer, Whitbread Prize, napoleonic, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, BBC…englishliterature, English, B.A. in English from Oxford University
Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her...
Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd

male, 60 years old
Royal Society of Literature, the observer, London Psychogeographical Association, Psychogeographers, English historical novelist, double first…English, Albion The Origins of the English Imagination, englishliterature, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Peter Ackroyd (born October 5 1949, London) is an English author. Ackroyd's mother worked in the personnel department of an engineering firm and...