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- Austen, Jane
- Jane Austen, by Harriett Childe Pemberton
(Girl's Own Paper, 1882)
- Barbauld, Anne Letitia Aikin,
- Mrs. Barbauld, by H. Barton Baker
(Argosy, 1881)
- A prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature.
- Cooper, Fenimore
- The Centenary of Fenimore Cooper, by Brander Matthews
(Century Magazine, 1889B)
- Defoe, Daniel
- The Author of "Robinson Crusoe," by M.O.W. Oliphant
(Century Magazine, 1893B)
- De Stael, Madame
- Madame de Stael, by Alice King
(Argosy, 1881)
- Literary lady and political figure in 18th-century Germany.
- Madame de Stael, by Harriett Childe Pemberton
(Girl's Own Paper, 1881)
- De Vega, Lopez
- Lopez de Vega
(Godey's, 1833)
- 17th-century Spanish writer, author of more than 1800 comedies.
- Edgeworth, Maria
- A Visit to the Edgeworths
(Atlantic Monthly, 1865)
- Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish writer and worker for Irish relief.
- Pen and Ink Sketch of Maria Edgeworth, by C.A. Macirone
(Girl's Own Paper, 1897)
- "...the greatest minds of her time would reverence her influence as a writer, and claim for her the honour of giving to the world a literature - first for the youngest, and then for readers of mature age - fresh, pure, and bright, so simple in her child stories as to be dear to all the little ones who could enter into the sorrows of Lame Jervas and Simple Susan..."
- Fielding, Henry,
- Fielding, by T.R. Lounsbury
(Century Magazine, 1884A)
- Goldsmith, Oliver
- Oliver Goldsmith
(Demorest, 1879)
- Our Poets' Corner: Oliver Goldsmith (1728)
(Girl's Own Paper, 1893)
- Johnson, Samuel
- Over Johnson's Grave: A Causerie, by Walter Besant
(Harper's Monthly, 1891A)
- Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, by Lizzie Lewis
(Demorest, 1880)
- English poet and novelist.
- Lewis, Matthew George
- The Death of M.G. Lewis, Esq.
(Court Magazine, 1834)
- Novelist and dramatist.
- Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
- Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle: A Gallery of Eccentric Women, by Nanette Mason
(Girl's Own Paper, 1888)
- A writer who was "familiarly known as 'mad Madge,' and certainly no madder specimen of a thoroughgoing bluestocking ever existed."
- Scott, Sir Walter
- A Morning Visit to Sir Walter Scott, by Miss Costello
(Court Magazine, 1834)
- The Original of Rebecca in Ivanhoe, by Gratz van Renssalaer
(Century Magazine, 1882B)
- Was Rebecca Gratz, a friend of Washington Irving, Walter Scott's inspiration for the Rebecca of Ivanhoe? (And was Rebecca Gratz a relative of the author of this article, who everywhere else uses the initials "M.G."?)
- A Visit to the Home of Sir Walter Scott, by Mrs. P.L. Collins
(St. Nicholas, 1882B)
- Gabions of Abbotsford: A Hitherto Unpublished Fragment, by Sir Walter Scott
(Harper's Monthly, 1889A)
- A look at Sir Walter Scott's collection of antiquities.
- Scott's Familiar Letters
(Atlantic Monthly, 1894)
- The Head of Sir Walter Scott, by T.T. Munger
(Century Magazine, 1894A)
- Apparently Scott's cranium (as measured by his death-mask) confuses those who want to be able to determine intellect and other characteristics by skull measurements.
- Love-Lore from Abbotsford: Two Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Hitherto Unpublished
(Girl's Own Paper, 1897)
- Swift, Jonathan
- The Author of "Gulliver," by M.O.W. Oliphant
(Century Magazine, 1893B)
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