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This list includes entries from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910.
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- Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
- Jacob Abbott
- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Edwin Abbott Abbott
- John Abercrombie
- Patrick Abercrombie
- John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
- St. Adamnan
- Francis Adams
- Joseph Addison
- John Adolphus
- ÆLfred
- ÆLfric
- Grace Aguilar
- John Aikin
- Lucy Aikin
- Alfred Ainger
- William Harrison Ainsworth
- Thomas Aird
- Mark Akenside
- Louisa M. Alcott
- Alcuin
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Alexander Alesius
- Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander
- Henry Alford
- Archibald Alison
- Sir Archibald Alison
- Charles Grant Allen
- James Lane Allen
- William Allingham
- Washington Allston
- Thomas Amory
- Alexander Anderson
- Lancelot Andrewes
- William Reynell Anson
- Christopher Anstey
- Edward Arber
- John Arbuthnot
- William Archer
- George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
- John Armstrong (poet)
- Elizabeth von Arnim
- Matthew Arnold
- Sir Edwin Arnold
- Thomas Arnold
- Roger Ascham
- John Asgill
- Elias Ashmole
- John Ashton
- Asser
- Edwin Atherstone
- Francis Atterbury
- John Aubrey
- Alfred Austin
- John Austin
- John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
- Sir Robert Ayton
- William Edmonstone Aytoun
- Francis Bacon
- Roger Bacon
- Robert Bage
- Walter Bagehot
- Richard Bagot
- Philip James Bailey
- Joanna Baillie
- Lady Grizel Baillie
- Robert Baillie
- Alexander Bain
- Sir Richard Baker
- Sir Samuel White Baker
- John Bale
- Arthur Balfour
- Robert Stawell Ball
- James Ballantine
- Robert Michael Ballantyne
- George Bancroft
- John Banim
- Richard Bannatyne
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
- John Barbour
- Alexander Barclay
- John Barclay
- Robert Barclay
- Richard Harris Barham
- Sabine Baring-Gould
- Joel Barlow
- Anne Barnard
- Barnabe Barnes
- William Barnes
- Richard Barnfield
- J. M. Barrie
- Isaac Barrow
- Barry, Rev. William (Francis), D.D.
- Bernard Barton
- Harry Francis Prevost ("Francis Prevost") Battersby
- Ernest Belfort Bax
- Richard Baxter
- Ada Ellen Bayly
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
- Thomas Spencer Baynes
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
- James Beattie
- Francis Beaumont
- Sir John Beaumont
- Charles Raymond Beazley
- George Louis Becke
- William Beckford
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Bede
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Henry Charles Beeching
- Max Beerbohm
- Edward Spencer Beesly
- Aphra Behn
- Henry Glassford Bell
- Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell
- John Bellenden
- Hilaire Belloc
- Enoch Arnold Bennett
- Arthur Christopher Benson
- Edward Frederic Benson
- Jeremy Bentham
- Richard Bentley
- Edward Berdoe
- Bernhard Berenson
- James Beresford
- George Berkeley
- Juliana Berners
- John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
- Annie Besant
- Sir Walter Besant
- Isaac Bickerstaffe
- Laurence Binyon
- Robert Montgomery Bird
- Augustine Birrell
- Samuel Bishop
- William Black
- John Stuart Blackie
- Thomas Blacklock
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- Sir William Blackstone
- John Arthur Blaikie
- Hugh Blair
- Robert Blair
- William Blake
- Susanna Blamire
- E. Nesbit
- Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
- Blind Harry
- Mathilde Blind
- Robert Bloomfield
- John Edward Bloundelle-Burton
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Frederick S. Boas
- John Bodenham
- Bodley, John Edward Courtenay, D.C.L.
- Hector Boece or Boethius
- George Henry Boker
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
- Horatius Bonar
- Andrew Boorde or Borde
- George Borrow
- Thomas Boston
- James Boswell
- Sir Alexander Boswell
- Dion Boucicault
- F.W. Bourdillon
- Thomas Bowdler
- Archibald Bower
- Walter Bower or Bowmaker
- William Lisle Bowles
- Sir John Bowring
- Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
- Zachary Boyd
- the Hon. Robert Boyle
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Andrew Cecil Bradley L.L.D., Litt.D., Etc]]
- Edward Bradley
- Francis Herbert Bradley
- Thomas Bradwardine
- Brady
- Richard Braithwaite or Brathwaite
- James Bramston
- Anna Eliza Bray
- Nicholas Breton
- Sir David Brewster
- Robert Bridges
- Arthur Broke or Brooke
- Richard Brome
- Charlotte Brontë
- Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord
- Henry Brooke
- Brooke, Rev. Stopford Augustus, Ll.D.
- Charles William Shirley Brooks
- Maria (Gowan) Brooks
- William Broome
- Brougham and Vaux, Henry, 1st Lord
- Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Lord
- Rhoda Broughton
- Charles Brockden Brown
- Dr. John Brown
- George Douglas Brown
- Brown, Peter Hume, Ll.D.
- Thomas Brown
- Thomas Edward Brown
- Tom Brown
- Charles Farrar Browne
- Isaac Hawkins Browne
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Thomas Alexander Browne
- William Browne
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Oscar Browning
- Robert Browning
- James Bruce
- Michael Bruce
- Mary (Balfour) Brunton
- Jacob Bryant
- William Cullen Bryant
- Bryce, Right Hon. James, P.C., D.C.L., Etc.
- Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
- John Buchan
- George Buchanan
- Robert Buchanan
- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
- Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of
- James Silk Buckingham
- Francis Trevelyan Buckland
- Henry Thomas Buckle
- Budge, Ernest a. Wallis, Litt.D., Etc
- Eustace Budgell
- George Bull
- Arthur Henry Bullen
- Frank Thomas Bullen
- John Bunyan
- John Lewis Burckhardt
- Edmund Burke
- Sir Francis Cowley Burnand
- Gilbert Burnet
- Thomas Burnet
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Robert Burns
- John Hill Burton
- Robert Burton
- Sir Richard Francis Burton
- Bury, John B., Ll.D., Etc.
- Lady Charlotte Bury
- Richard De Bury
- Butcher, Samuel Henry, Ll.D., Etc.
- Joseph Butler
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Butler
- Butler, Sir William Francis, G.C.B.
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron
- Henry James Byron
- George Washington Cable
- Cædmon
- Hall Caine
- Edward Caird
- John Caird
- Edmund Calamy
- David Calderwood
- Charles Stuart Calverley
- Ada Cambridge ("Mrs. Cross")
- William Camden
- George Campbell
- John Francis Campbell
- John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell
- Lewis Campbell
- Thomas Campbell
- Campbell, Wilfred, Ll.D.
- Thomas Campion
- George Canning
- John Capgrave
- Richard Carew
- Thomas Carew
- Henry Carey
- William Carleton
- Alexander Carlyle
- Thomas Carlyle
- Robert Carruthers
- Thomas Carte
- Elizabeth Carter
- William Cartwright
- Alice Cary
- Henry Francis Cary
- Egerton Castle
- George Catlin
- Edward Cave
- George Cavendish
- William Caxton
- Susanna Centlivre
- John Chalkhill
- George Chalmers
- Thomas Chalmers
- William Chamberlayne
- Robert Chambers
- Robert William Chambers
- William Chambers
- Frederick Chamier
- William Ellery Channing
- George Chapman
- Hester (Mulso) Chapone
- Walter Charleton
- Thomas Chatterton
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Andrew Cherry
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Henry Chettle
- Francis J. Child
- Lydia Maria (Francis) Child
- William Chillingworth
- Mary Cholmondeley
- Richard William Church
- Charles Churchill
- Winston Churchill
- Thomas Churchyard
- Colley Cibber
- John Clare
- Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
- Charles Cowden Clarke
- Marcus Clarke
- Samuel Clarke
- John Cleveland
- W.K. (Lane) Clifford
- Henry Fynes Clinton
- Edward Clodd
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Frances Power Cobbe
- William Cobbett
- Henry Cockburn
- Henry Cockton
- John William Colenso
- Christabel Rose Coleridge
- Hartley Coleridge
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Sara Coleridge
- John Colet
- Jeremy Collier
- John Collins
- John Churton Collins
- Mortimer Collins
- William Collins
- William Wilkie Collins
- Colman, George, the Elder
- Colman, George, the Younger
- Charles Caleb Colton
- Colvin, Sidney, D.Litt.
- George Combe
- William Combe
- William Congreve
- John Conington
- Joseph Conrad
- Henry Constable
- John Esten Cooke
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Thomas Cooper
- Richard Corbet
- Marie Corelli
- William Johnson Cory
- Coryate, or Coryatt, Thomas
- Louisa Stuart Costello
- Sara Jeannette Duncan Cotes
- Charles Cotton
- Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
- Courthope, William John, C.B., Ll.D., Etc.
- Courtney, Wm. Leonard, Ll.D.
- Anne Ross Cousin
- Miles Coverdale
- Abraham Cowley
- William Cowper
- William Coxe
- George Crabbe
- Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) Craigie
- George Lillie Craik
- Thomas Cranmer
- Richard Crashaw
- Francis Marion Crawford
- Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
- Thomas Creech
- Mandell Creighton
- Samuel Rutherford Crockett
- John Wilson Croker
- Thomas Crofton Croker
- George Croly
- May De La Cherois Crommelin
- Catherine (Stevens) Crowe
- Eyre Evans Crowe
- Sir Joseph Archer Crowe
- William Crowe
- John Crowne
- Ralph Cudworth
- Richard Cumberland
- Maria Susanna Cummins
- Allan Cunningham
- Cunningham, William, D.D.
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham
- George William Curtis
- Cynewulf
- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Lord]]
- William Dampier
- Richard Henry Dana
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Samuel Daniel
- Frances (Burney) d'Arblay
- George Darley
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Erasmus Darwin
- Sir George Webbe Dasent
- William Davenant, or D'avenant, Sir William
- John Davidson
- John Davies
- Sir John Davies
- Davis, or Davys, John
- Richard Harding Davis
- Thomas Osborne Davis
- Sir Humphrey Davy
- John Day
- Thomas Day
- John Louis De Lolme
- Augustus De Morgan
- William Frend De Morgan
- Thomas De Quincey
- Aubrey Thomas De Vere
- Daniel Defoe
- Thomas Dekker
- Thomas Deloney
- Sir John Denham
- John Dennis
- Thomas Dermody
- Charles Dibdin
- Charles Dickens
- Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Sir Kenelm Digby
- Charles Wentworth Dilke
- Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, Bart., P.C., Ll.D., Etc.
- Isaac D'israeli
- Richard Watson Dixon
- William Hepworth Dixon
- Sydney Thompson Dobell
- Henry Austin Dobson Ll.D.
- William Dodd
- Philip Doddridge
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll")
- Robert Dodsley
- John Donne
- John Doran
- Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of
- Dorset, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of, and Lord Buckhurst
- Francis Douce
- Arthur Doughty
- Charles Montague Doughty
- Gavin Douglas
- James Douglas
- Douglas, Sir George Brisbane Scott, Bart.
- Edward Dowden Ll.D., D.C.L.
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Ll.D.
- Sir Francis Hastings Doyle
- Joseph Rodman Drake
- Michael Drayton
- Henry Drummond
- William Drummond
- John Dryden
- George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier
- Alice Whiffin Dudeney ("Mrs. Henry Dudeney")
- Sir Mountstuart E. Grant Duff
- Dufferin, Helen Selena (Sheridan), Countess of
- Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
- Sir William Dugdale
- William Dunbar
- John Colin Dunlop
- Scotus Johannes Duns
- Thomas D'urfey
- Timothy Dwight
- Alexander Dyce
- John Dyer
- Sir Edward Dyer
- John Earle
- Elizabeth Eastlake (Rigby)
- Laurence Echard
- Maria Edgeworth
- Jonathan Edwards
- Matilda Betham-Edwards
- Owen Morgan Edwards
- Richard Edwards
- Pierce Egan
- Edward Eggleston
- Queen Elizabeth
- Ebenezer Elliot
- Jean Elliot
- George Ellis
- Robinson Ellis
- Thomas Ellwood
- Mountstuart Elphinstone
- Oliver Elton
- Whitwell Elwin
- Sir Thomas Elyot
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ercildoun, Thomas of, or "Thomas the Rhymer"
- Erigena, or Scotus, John
- Ralph Erskine
- Thomas Erskine
- Erminda Rentoul Esler
- Etc.
- Etc
- Sir George Etherege
- Mary Ann or Marian Evans ("George Eliot")
- John Evelyn
- Evelyn Everett-Green
- Juliana Horatia (Gatty) Ewing
- Frederick William Faber
- Robert Fabyan
- Edward Fairfax
- William Falconer
- Catherine Maria Fanshawe
- Sir Richard Fanshawe
- Michael Faraday
- Richard Farmer
- George Farquhar
- Frederic William Farrar
- Henry Fawcett
- Francis Fawkes
- Owen Feltham
- Elijah Fenton
- Adam Ferguson
- Sir Samuel Ferguson
- James Fergusson
- Robert Fergusson
- James Frederick Ferrier
- Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier
- Nathaniel Field
- Henry Fielding
- Sarah Fielding
- Sir Robert Filmer
- Jane Helen Findlater
- George Finlay
- Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
- John Fisher
- John Fiske
- Fison, Lorimer, D.D.
- Edward Fitzgerald
- James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
- William Fitzstephen
- John Flavel
- Richard Flecknoe
- Fleming, David Hay, Ll.D.
- Andrew Fletcher
- Giles Fletcher, and Phineas Fletcher
- Robert Flint D.D., Ll.D.
- Florence of Worcester
- John Florio
- Albany William Fonblanque
- Samuel Foote
- James David Forbes
- John Ford
- Paul Leicester Ford
- Richard Ford
- John Fordun
- Forman, Harry Buxton, C.B.
- John Forster
- John Forster
- Sir John Fortescue
- Stephen Collins Foster
- Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler ("Mrs. Felkin")
- Charles James Fox
- George Fox
- John Fox
- John Foxe
- Francis
- Sir Philip Francis
- Benjamin Franklin
- Alexander Campbell Fraser, Ll.D., D.C.L.
- James Frazer, James George, Ll.D., D.C.L.
- Edward Augustus Freeman
- Philip Freneau
- John Hookham Frere
- James Anthony Froude
- Sarah Margaret Fuller
- Thomas Fuller
- Lady Georgiana Fullerton (Leveson-Gower)
- Horace Howard Furness, Ph.D., Ll.D.
- Frederick James Furnivall, Ph.D., D.Litt.
- Geoffrey Gaimar
- James Gairdner, C.B., Ll.D.
- John Galsworthy
- John Galt
- Sir Francis Galton, F.R.S., D.C.L.
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner
- Edmund Garratt Gardner
- Ernest Arthur Gardner
- Percy Gardner, Litt.D., Ll.D.
- Constance Garnett
- Edward Garnett
- Richard Garnett
- David Garrick
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Sir Samuel Garth
- George Gascoigne
- Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson) Gaskell
- Gasquet, Right Rev. Francis Aidan, D.D.
- Margaret Scott Gatty ("Mrs. Alfred Gatty")
- John Gauden
- John Gay
- Alexander Geddes
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Alexander Gerard
- Edward Gibbon
- Agnes Giberne
- Richard Gifford
- William Gifford
- Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
- Gildas
- Richard Watson Gilder
- Charles Gildon
- George Gilfillan
- Robert Gilfillan
- George Gillespie
- John Gillies
- Giraldus Cambrensis (Literary Name of Gerald De Barri)
- George Gissing
- William Ewart Gladstone
- Joseph Glanvill
- Henry Glapthorne
- William Nugent Glascock
- George Robert Gleig
- William Glen
- Richard Glover
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
- William Godwin
- Arthur Golding
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Israel Gollancz, Litt.D.
- Walter Goodall
- Thomas Goodwin
- Barnabe Googe
- Adam Lindsay Gordon
- William Gordon Stables
- Catherine Grace Frances (Moody) Gore
- Edmund Gosse Ll.D.
- Stephen Gosson
- Richard Gough
- Nathaniel Gould
- John Gower
- Richard Grafton
- James Grahame
- Kenneth Grahame
- Simon Grahame
- James Grainger
- Sarah Grand
- James Granger
- James Grant
- James Augustus Grant
- Anne (M'vicar) Grant
- Thomas Colley Grattan
- Alfred Perceval Graves
- David Gray
- Thomas Gray
- Horace Greeley
- John Richard Green
- Matthew Green
- Thomas Hill Green
- Robert Greene
- William Rathbone Greg
- Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville
- Bartholomew Griffin
- Gerald Griffin
- Nicholas Grimoald
- Francis Hindes Groome
- Alexander Balloch Grosart
- Francis Grose
- Robert Grosseteste
- George Grote
- George Grub
- Sydney Grundy
- Lady Charlotte Guest
- Thomas Guthrie
- Thomas Anstey Guthrie ("F. Anstey")
- William Habington
- Henry Rider Haggard
- Hailes, Dalrymple David, Lord
- Thomas Gordon Hake
- Richard Hakluyt
- Sir Matthew Hale
- John Hales
- John Wesley Hales
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
- Basil Hall
- Joseph Hall
- Anna Maria Hall
- Edward Hall, or Halle
- Robert Hall
- Henry Hallam
- Fitzgreene Halleck
- James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth Hamilton
- Sir William Hamilton
- Thomas Hamilton
- William (of Bangour) Hamilton
- William (of Gilbertfield) Hamilton
- William Hanna
- James Hannay
- Hardy, Ernest George, D.Litt.
- Thomas Hardy, Ll.D.
- Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
- Augustus William Hare
- Julius Charles Hare
- Sir John Harington
- Henry Harland
- Beatrice Harraden
- James Harrington
- Frank Harris
- James Harris
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Harrison, Frederic, Litt.D.
- Mary St. Leger Kingsley Harrison ("Lucas Malet")
- Jane Ellen Harrison, Ll.D., Etc.
- Francis Bret Harte
- David Hartley
- Gabriel Harvey
- Arthur Hill Hassall
- Stephen Hawes
- Robert Stephen Hawker
- Anthony Hope ("Anthony Hope") Hawkins
- Julian Hawthorne
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- John Hay
- Alfred Hayes
- William Hayley
- Paul Hamilton Hayne
- Abraham Hayward
- Sir John Hayward
- Eliza (Fowler) Haywood
- William Hazlitt
- William Carew Hazlitt
- Sir Francis Bond Head
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Thomas Hearne
- Reginald Heber
- Sir Arthur Helps
- Felicia Dorothea (Browne) Hemans
- William Ernest Henley
- Henry of Huntingdon
- Henry VIII
- Matthew Henry
- Robert Henry
- Robert Henryson
- George Alfred Henty
- John Abraham Heraud
- George Herbert
- Herbert, of Cherbury, Edward, 1st Lord
- Sir Thomas Herbert
- David Herd
- Herford, Charles Harold, Litt.D.
- Robert Herrick
- Sir John Frederick William Herschel
- James Hervey
- Hervey, John, Lord
- Maurice Henry Hewlett
- Peter Heylin
- John Heywood
- Thomas Heywood
- Robert Smythe Hichens
- Ranulf or Ralph Higden
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Aaron Hill
- James Hinton
- Benjamin Hoadley
- Thomas Hobbes
- Sir Thomas Hoby
- Hoccleve, or Occleve, Thomas
- Rev. Joseph Hocking
- Rev. Silas Kitto Hocking
- Hodgkin, Thomas, D.C.L., Etc.
- Charles Fenno Hoffman
- James Hogg (the Ettrick Shepherd)
- Thomas Jefferson Hogg
- Thomas Holcroft
- Raphael Holinshed, or Hollingshead, Raphael or Ralph _D._
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
- Philemon Holland
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- John Home
- William Hone
- Thomas Hood
- Theodore Edward Hook
- Walter Farquhar Hook
- Richard Hooker
- John Hoole
- Thomas Hope
- Richard Henry or Hengist Horne
- Thomas Hartwell Horne
- Ernest William Hornung
- Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord
- Alfred Edward Housman
- Laurence Housman
- Edward Howard
- Sir Robert Howard
- John Howe
- James Howell
- Howells, William Dean, D.Litt.
- John Howie
- William Howitt
- or Sir Hugh of Eglinton Huchown
- W.H. Hudson
- Ford Madox Hueffer
- John Hughes
- Thomas Hughes
- Alexander Hume
- David Hume
- William Hunnis
- James Henry Leigh Hunt
- Richard Hurd
- Francis Hutcheson
- Lucy Hutchinson
- Edward Hutton
- Hutton, Rev. William Holden, B.D.
- Richard Holt Hutton
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Douglas Hyde, , Ll.D
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- Jean Ingelow
- Cosmo Innes
- Thomas Innes
- William Henry Ireland
- Edward Irving
- Washington Irving
- Joseph Jacobs
- William Wymark Jacobs
- James I of Scotland
- George Payne Rainsford James
- William James Ll.D., Etc.
- Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson
- Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb
- Richard Jefferies
- Francis Jeffrey
- Jerome Klapka Jerome
- Douglas William Jerrold
- John Heneage Jesse
- Jessop, Rev. Augustus, D.D.
- William Stanley Jevons
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury
- John of Salisbury
- Lionel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
- Arthur Johnston
- Charles Johnstone
- Ebenezer Jones
- Ernest Charles Jones
- Henry Arthur Jones
- Sir William Jones
- Ben Jonson
- John Jortin
- Benjamin Jowett
- Sylvester Judd
- Kames, Henry Home, Lord
- Julia Kavanagh
- Sir John William Kaye
- Annie Keary
- John Keats
- John Keble
- Thomas Keightley
- Robert Keith
- Hugh Kelly
- Thomas Ken
- John Pendleton Kennedy
- Walter Kennedy
- Benjamin Kidd
- Thomas Killigrew
- Henry King
- Alexander William Kinglake
- William Kingsford
- Charles Kingsley
- Henry Kingsley
- Mary Henrietta Kingsley
- William Henry Giles Kingston
- Rudyard Kipling
- Joseph Kirkland
- John Kitto
- Charles Knight
- Henry Gally Knight
- Richard Knolles
- Herbert Knowles
- James Sheridan Knowles
- John Knox
- Vicesimus Knox
- William Knox
- Thomas Kyd
- William Laidlaw
- David Laing
- Malcolm Laing
- Charles Lamb
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Walter Savage Landor
- Edward William Lane
- Lane-Poole, Stanley, Litt.D., Etc.
- Andrew Lang, D.Litt., Etc.
- John Langhorne
- William Langland
- Sidney Lanier
- Dionysius Lardner
- Hugh Latimer
- Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
- Sir John Knox Laughton
- William Law
- William Arthur Law
- Emily Lawless
- George Alfred Lawrence
- Layamon
- Sir Austin Henry Layard
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Richard Le Gallienne
- Walter Leaf , Litt.D.
- Edward Lear
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
- Nathaniel Lee
- Sidney Lee D.Litt., Ll.D.
- Sophia Lee
- Robert Leighton
- John Leland or Leyland
- Charles Godfrey Leland
- Mark Lemon
- Charlotte Lennox
- Leslie, or Lesley, John
- Sir Roger L'estrange
- Charles James Lever
- George Henry Lewes
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Sir George Cornewall Lewis
- John Leyden
- Henry George Liddell
- Henry Parry Liddon
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
- George Lillo
- William Lilly
- Lindsay, or Lindesay, Robert
- Lindsay, or Lyndsay, Sir David
- John Lingard
- Eliza Lynn Linton
- Thomas Henry Lister
- William Lithgow
- David Livingstone
- Robert Lloyd
- David Ross (Petroleum V. Nasby) Locke
- John Locke
- William John Locke
- Frederick Locker-Lampson
- John Gibson Lockhart
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman, K.C.B., F.R.S.
- Lodge, Richard, Ll.D., Etc.
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph, F.R.S., Ll.D.
- Thomas Lodge
- John Logan
- Jack London
- George Long
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Richard Lovelace
- Samuel Lover
- Sidney James Low
- James Russell Lowell
- Robert Lowth
- Edward Verall Lucas
- Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn, K.C.B., Etc.
- John Lydgate
- Sir Charles Lyell
- John Lyly
- Henry Francis Lyte
- Lyttelton, George, 1st Lord Lyttelton
- Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton-Bulwer, 1st Lord
- Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl of Lytton
- Catherine (Sawbridge) Macaulay
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
- Denis Florence Maccarthy
- George Macdonald
- Mackail, John William, Ll.D., Etc.
- Charles Mackay
- Henry Mackenzie
- Sir George Mackenzie
- Sir James Mackintosh
- Charles Macklin
- Norman Macleod
- Hector Macneill
- James Macpherson
- William Maginn
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