HomeAuthors Authors (166) In this month… We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary. prev Beatrix Potter BORN THIS WEEK IN 1866 I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations. Find out more E. F. Benson BORN THIS WEEK IN 1867 Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about. Find out more Henry Mayhew DIED THIS WEEK IN 1887 The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. Find out more Beatrix Potter BORN THIS WEEK IN 1866 I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations. Find out more E. F. Benson BORN THIS WEEK IN 1867 Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about. Find out more Henry Mayhew DIED THIS WEEK IN 1887 The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. 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Porter Beatrix Potter Arthur Rackham Ann Radcliffe Christina Rossetti Jean-Jacques Rousseau James Malcolm Rymer Antoine de Saint-Exupery Sir Walter Scott Anna Sewell William Shakespeare Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Adam Smith Benedict Spinoza Johanna Spyri Flora Annie Steel Laurence Sterne Robert Louis Stevenson Bram Stoker Harriet Beecher Stowe Jonathan Swift Alfred, Lord Tennyson William Makepeace Thackeray Dylan Thomas Alexis de Tocqueville Leo Tolstoy Robert Tressell Anthony Trollope Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Mark Twain Lao Tzu Sun Tzu Jules Verne Virgil Voltaire Lew Wallace H.G. Wells Edith Wharton Walt Whitman Oscar Wilde Margery Williams Bianco Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Shang Yang W.B. Yeats View More Articles related to Authors prev Apr10 The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes David Stuart Davies looks at the classic early short stories first published in ‘The Strand Magazine’. 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