Authors

A

• Leila Aboulela
• Douglas Adams
• Francis Adams
• Segun Afolabi
• Iqbal Ahmed
• William Harrison Ainsworth
• Reinhold Rücker Angerstein
• Anonymous
• Anonymous
• Anonymous
• Anonymous (Gardener’s Chronicle)
• Anonymous (A Gentleman of London)
• Anonymous (The Gentleman’s Magazine)
• Anonymous (The People’s Paper)
• Anonymous (Punch or The London Charivari)
• Anonymous (A Seven Years Absentee)
• Anonymous (The Southern Monthly Magazine)
• F. Anstey
• Vicomte Charles D’Arlincourt
• Wilson Armistead
• W. H. Auden
• John James Audubon

B

• Marian Babson
• Kage Baker
• Hugo Barnacle
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Donald Barron
• Karoline Bauer
• Beasley
• Samuel Beckett
• Deborah Bell
• Alan Bennett
• Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley
• Christopher Biggins
• William Black
• Nicholas Blake
• William Blake
• William Bloom
• Elizabeth Bowen
• John Boyle, Earl of Cork
• Susie Boyt
• Gill Brason
• Vera Brittain
• Bill Broady
• Anita Brookner
• Kevin Brooks
• Brigid Brophy
• William Cullen Bryant
• John Buchan
• Frances Burney
• Bertha H. Buxton

C

• John Cairncross
• Giuseppe Maria Campanella
• Liz Carlyle
• Justin Cartwright
• Giacomo Casanova
• Prudence Cautious
• Jill Chaney
• Gerda Charles
• Paul Charles
• G.K. Chesterton
• Clara Mary Jane Clairmont
• Jonathan Coe
• Nicholas Coleridge
• Norman Collins
• Wilkie Collins
• J.J. Connolly
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Alan Coren
• Obadiah Couchman
• Amanda Craig
• Mrs. Craik
• Angela Culme-Seymour
• Rachel Cusk
• Olive Custance

D

• Bill Dare
• John Davidson
• Charles Dickens
• Charles Culliford Boz Dickens
• Edward Digby
• Kenelm Henry Digby
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Ella Hepworth Dixon
• David Docherty
• A.J. Downing
• Conan Doyle
• Margaret Drabble
• Daphne Du Maurier

E

• Maria Edgeworth
• Rachelle Edwards
• George Eliot
• James Elmes
• Ben Elton
• Kevin Elyot

F

• George H. Fage
• Helen Falconer
• Eleanor Farjeon
• William Fitz-Stephen
• Hugh Fleetwood
• Ian Fleming
• Gaelen Foley
• Margaret Forster
• Ugo Foscolo
• Bo Fowler
• Christopher Fowler
• John Fowles
• Dick Francis
• Sir Arthur Ronald Fraser

G

• John Galsworthy
• Jane Gardam
• Eve Garnett
• R.S. Garnett
• John Gay
• Peter Geoghegan
• Allen Ginsberg
• George Gissing
• Victoria Glendinning
• The Goons
• Edmund Gosse
• Ann Granger
• Linda Grant
• Christopher Green
• Lavinia Greenlaw
• Weedon Grossmith
• François Guizot
• Jane Gwilliam

H

• Marilyn Hacker
• Michael Hames
• Patrick Hamilton
• Henry Harford
• M. John Harrison
• Peter Hawker
• Jacquetta Hawkes
• Zoë Heller
• Margaret Hickey
• Emma Holly
• Anthony Horowitz
• Peter Howard
• Ted Hughes
• Leigh Hunt
• Alyson Hunter
• A.S.M. Hutchinson

I

J

• Henry James
• P.D. James
• Wilf James
• John Cordy Jeaffreson
• Jerome K. Jerome
• Samuel Johnson

K

• Pehr Kalm
• P.J. Kavanagh
• Gerald Kersh
• Caroline Matilda Kirkland
• Karl Klingemann
• Kate Kray

L

• Ernest Lacy
• Charles Lamb
• Margery Lawrence
• John le Carré
• Mark Lee
• Doris Lessing
• Octavia Walton Le Vert
• Roger Levy
• Dinah Livingstone
• Josie Lloyd
• W.J. Locke
• Elizabeth Longford
• E.C.R. Lorac
• Marie Belloc Lowndes
• Henry Lucy
• Robert Ludlum
• Alison Lurie

M

• Regis McCafferty
• George MacDonald
• Alexander Slidell Mackenzie
• Charles Nottidge Macnamara
• Louis MacNeice
• James Peller Malcolm
• Des Marshall
• W.B. Maxwell
• Henry Mayhew
• L.T. Meade
• W.S. Merwin
• Karen Moller
• Benjamin Moran
• William De Morgan
• John Mortimer
• John Maddison Morton
• Kate Moses
• Mother Goose
• Ferdinand Mount
• Malcolm Muggeridge
• H.G. Murray

N

• Thomas Nabbs
• Sophia Nash
• Edith Nesbit
• Sylas Neville
• Henry Newman
• Freya North
• Jehangeer Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee
• Alfred Noyes

O

• Patrick O'Brian
• Pamela Odgers
• Elliot O'Donnell
• Charles Ollier
• Nora Tynan O'Mahony
• Baroness Emmuska Orczy
• Joe Orton
• Jane Owen

P

• Stephen Paget
• Robert B. Parker
• Tony Parsons
• James Payn
• Brian Louis Pearce
• Samuel Pepys
• Charles James Perry
• Kim Philby
• Peter Phillips
• Justine Picardie
• Sylvia Plath
• Jeremy Potter
• Anthony Powell
• H.G. Pozzuoli
• Primrose Hill Residents
• V.S. Pritchett
• David Profumo
• Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau

Q

R

• Cyrus Redding
• Talbot Baines Reed
• Ruth Rendell
• Jean Rhys
• Henry Handel Richardson
• Nigel Richardson
• Anne Ridler
• Charles Ritchie
• Jack Rosenthal
• Christina Rossetti
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• William Michael Rossetti
• John Rothenstein
• Richard Rowe

S

• Michael Sadleir
• Polly Samson
• May Sarton
• Edith Scovell
• Will Self
• Mary Lee Settle
• William Sharp
• George Bernard Shaw
• John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Ernest H. Shepard
• Silipo
• T.J. Simoneaux
• George Robert Sims
• Iain Sinclair
• May Sinclair
• Robyn Sisman
• Edith Sitwell
• Dodie Smith
• John Thomas Smith
• Terence George Michael Smith
• Tobias Smollett
• Herbert Spencer
• Betty Spiro
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Ian Stewart
• David Storey
• Matthew Sweeney
• Arthur Symons

T

• Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Jonathan Tel
• Sir Charles Tennyson
• William Makepeace Thackeray
• David Thomson
• Katherine Thomson
• John Trusler

U

V

• Ursula Vaughan Williams
• John Vetterlein

W

• Richard Wagner
• Edgar Wallace
• Hannah Wallis
• Sarah Waters
• H. G. Wells
• Katharine West
• Rebecca West
• Paul Wheeler
• Ed Wicke
• Emma Willard
• Kenneth Williams
• Edward Wilson
• Harriette Wilson
• Virginia Woolf
• William Wordsworth
• Deborah Wright
• John Wyndham

X

Y

• W. B. Yeats

Z