British Authors

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson : Pen Name Lewis Carroll Born 27th January 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England. Died (age 65) 14th January 1898, Guildford, Surrey, England. Lewis Carroll was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass” (includes the poem “Jabberwocky“), […]

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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM Born 26th September 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Died 4th January 1965, London, England. T. S. Eliot was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and “one of the twentieth century’s major poets”. He moved from his native United States to England in 1914 at the age of 25, […]

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Abraham “Bram” Stoker Born 8th November 1847, Dublin, Ireland. Died 20th April 1912, London, England. Bram Stoker was an Irish author, best known today for his Gothic adventure novel Dracula (1897), spawning the infamous Count Dracula vampire legend from Transylvania. During his lifetime, Stoker was better known as the personal assistant to the actor Henry […]

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Jane Austen English novelist born 16th December 1775, died 18th July 1817. Known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Jane Austen’s plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and […]

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Poems by Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle Poetry Songs of Action Poems (1898) The Song of the Bow Poem Cremona Poem The Storming Party Poem The Frontier Line Poem Corporal Dick’s Promotion Poem A Forgotten Tale Poem Pennarby Mine Poem A Rover Chanty Poem A Ballad of the Ranks Poem A Lay of the […]

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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930), British physician, novelist, and detective-story writer, creator of the unforgettable master sleuth Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh and educated at Stonyhurst College and the University of Edinburgh. From 1882 to 1890 he practiced medicine in Southsea, England. A Study in Scarlet, the first […]

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Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet Sherlock Holmes Story 1, Beeton’s Christmas Annual, December 1887 Sherlock Holmes The Sign of The Four Sherlock Holmes Story 2, Lippincott’s Magazine, February 1890 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 12 Sherlock Holmes […]

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Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Brigadier Gerard Stories The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard 8 Brigadier Gerard stories first published in The Strand Magazine, December 1894 to December 1895 First book edition: George Newnes, London, 1896 I. How The Brigadier Came To The Castle Of Gloom Brigadier Gerard […]

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet Born May 9th, 1860, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland Died June 19th, 1937, London, England Dramatist and novelist who is best known as the creator of Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up. The son of a weaver, Barrie never recovered from the shock he received at six from […]

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Adelaide Anne Procter (born 30th October 1825 – died 2nd February 1864) was an English poet, feminist, and philanthropist. Procter never married, she worked tirelessly on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. Procter’s literary career started […]

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Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593), Born the same year as Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe was to become the first great poet of the theatre’s second great age. His life, much like the lives of his characters, would be short and violent. Christopher Marlowe Works The First Book of Lucan (1582) Ovid’s Amores (1582 – 1st Published 1600?) The […]

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John Webster (1580 – 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are considered by many as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage and a worthy addition to the Classic Literature Library. His life and career overlapped William Shakespeare’s. Webster’s life is […]

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