Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

female, deceased (1762)
poet, Women poet, Playwright, feminism, English, Women writer…English women writer, Englishletterwriter
The Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (born 26 May 1689 in Thoresby Hall, died 21 August 1762), was an English aristocrat and writer, chiefly remembered...
Dorothy Osborne

Dorothy Osborne

female, deceased (1695)
Englishletterwriter, William Temple, Letter writer, Moor Park, Thomas Osborne, Chicksands Priory
Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple (born 1627 in Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, England; died 1695 in Moor Park, Surrey) was a British writer of...
John Wesley

John Wesley

male, deceased (1791)
English pamphlet writer, Christianity in London, Englishletterwriter, Renewers of the church, Christian Revivalist, Christianity in Oxford…English sermon writer, English, Sermon writer, Letter writer, Pamphlet writer
John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican minister and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had...
Philip Stanhope 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Philip Stanhope 4th Earl of Chesterfield

male, deceased (1773)
Englishletterwriter, Diplomatic peer, Privy Council of Great Britain, Member of the Privy Council of Great Britain, intellectual, age of majority…English, Non-fiction writer, Letter writer
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC KG (22 September 1694 - 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters. A Whig, Lord...

John Chamberlain

male, deceased (1628)
murray, letter, Letter writer, John Murray, Englishletterwriter, Elizabeth McClure Thomson
John Chamberlain (1553-1628) was the author of a series of letters used by later historians as a record concerning life in England from 1597 to...
Mary Delany

Mary Delany

female, deceased (1788)
Englishletterwriter, memoirist, bluestocking, English women writer, Blue Stockings Society, Women writer…English, Non-fiction writer
Mary Delany, nee Granville (14 May 1700 - 15 April 1788) was an English Bluestocking, artist, and writer. She was born at Coulston, Wiltshire, a...
Rosina Bulwer Lytton

Rosina Bulwer Lytton

female, deceased (1882)
Essayist, From Hertfordshire, HypheN, English women writer, Englishletterwriter, novelist…English
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, née Doyle Wheeler, wrote and published fourteen novels, a volume of essays and a volume of letters. Her husband was Edward B...