English Authors in Chronological Order
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342/43 - 1400)
Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
James I King of England (1566 - 1625)
John Milton (1608 - 1674)
John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840)
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Mary Shelley (1797 - 1817)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
George Eliot Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (1819 - 1880)
Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849)
Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1