Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: British Isles

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Leigh Hunt, English Poet
(1784-1859)

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Name: James Henry Leigh Hunt
Known as: Leigh Hunt
Birth: October 19, 1784, Southgate, London, UK
Death: August 28, 1859, Putney, London, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English critic, essayist, and poet whose popular poems include "Jenny kiss'd Me," "Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel," and "A Night-Rain in Summer"
Included in lists (What's This?): HC, GC

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Mary Wollstonecraft, English Feminist
(1759-1797)

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Name: Mary Wollstonecraft
Birth: April 27, 1759, Spitalfields, London, England
Death: September 10, 1797, Somers Town, London, England
Language: English
Who she was: English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights; known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Frank Kermode, British Literary Critic
(1919-2010)

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Name: (John) Frank Kermode
Birth: November 29, 1919, Douglas, Isle of Man
Death: August 17, 2010, Cambridge, UK
Language: English
Who he was: British literary critic who wrote The Sense of an Ending
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

G. Wilson Knight, English Literary Critic
(1897-1995)

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Name: G(eorge) Wilson Knight
Dates: 1897-1985
Place: England
Language: English
Who he was: English literary critic known for The Wheel of Fire; The Burning Oracle
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Ford Madox Ford, English Writer
(1873-1939)

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Name: Ford Hermann Hueffer
Known as: Ford Madox Ford
Birth: December 17, 1873, Merton, UK
Death: June 26, 1939, Deauville, France
Language: English
Who he was: English novelist, poet, critic and editor known for his novels The Good Soldier; Parade's End (tetralogy); The Fifth Queen (trilogy)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Max Beerbohm, English Humorist
(1872-1956)

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Name: Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
Known as: Max Beerbohm
Birth: August 24, 1872, London, UK
Death: May 20, 1956, Rapallo, Italy
Language: English
Who he was: English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist who wrote Zuleika Dobson; Seven Men; A Christmas Garland
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born
British and American Writer (1927-2013)

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Name: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Birth: May 7, 1927, Cologne, Germany
Death: April 3, 2013, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: German-born British and American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter known for her novel Heat and Dust, and adapting the screenplays from E. M. Forster's Room with a View and Howards End (winning Oscars for both)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Coventry Patmore, English Poet
(1823-1896)

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Name: Coventry Patmore
Birth: July 23, 1823, Woodford, London, UK
Death: November 26, 1896, Lymington, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English poet and critic who wrote The Unknown Eros and The Angel in the House
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Fanny Burney, English Author
(1752-1840)

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Name: Frances Burney
Known as: Fanny Burney
Birth: June 13, 1752, King's Lynn, UK
Death: January 6, 1840, Bath, UK
Language: English
Who she was: English satirical novelist, diarist, and playwright known especially for novels Evelina, Camilla, and The Wanderer; and the non-fiction Memoirs of Doctor Burney.
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

George Chapman, English Author
(1559-1634)

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Name: George Chapman
Birth: Unknown date, 1559, Hitchin, UK
Death: May 12, 1634, London, UK
Languages: English, Greek
Who he was: English dramatist, translator, and poet best remembered for translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

William Gilbert, English Scientist
(1544-1603)

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Name: William Gilbert
Birth: May 24, 1544, Colchester, UK
Death: November 30, 1603, London, UK
Language: Latin, English
Who he was: English physician, physicist and "natural philosopher" regarded by some as the father of electrical engineering or electricity and magnetism. Wrote On the Lodestone (Magnet)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP)

Andrew Russell Forsyth, British Mathematician
(1858-1942)

Andrew Russell Forsyth, by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1917 / NPG x167616

Just the Facts:

Name: Andrew Russell Forsyth
Birth: June 18, 1858, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Death: June 2, 1942, South Kensington, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: British mathematician known for lecture "Mathematics, in Life and Thought"; mammoth six-volume Theory of Differential Equations, among many other sleep-inducing tomes
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2)

Joseph Priestley, English Philosopher
(1733-1804)

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Name: Joseph Priestley
Birth: March 24, 1733, Birstall, UK
Death: February 6, 1804, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
Language: English
Who he was: English theologian, natural philosopher, and chemist, who published over 150 works.

Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian-American Writer
(1967 - )

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Name: Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
Known as: Jhumpa Lahiri
Birth: July 11, 1967, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who she is: Indian American novelist and short story writer; Interpreter of Maladies; The Namesake; Unaccustomed Earth; The Lowland; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000)

Douglas Adams, English Writer
(1952-2001)

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Name: Douglas Adams
Birth: March 11, 1952, Cambridge, England, UK
Death: May 11, 2001, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: English author, essayist, satirist, and playwright; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Salman Rushdie, British Kashmiri Writer
(1947 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Ahmad Salman Rushdie
Known as: Salman Rushdie
Birth: June 19, 1947, Mumbai, India
Language: English
Who he is: British Kashmiri novelist and essayist; Midnight's Children; The Satanic Verses; children's books: Haroun and the Sea of Stories; Luka and the Fire of Life
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Tom Stoppard, British Playwright
(1937 - )

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Name: Tom Stoppard
Birth: July 3, 1937, Zlin, Czech Republic
Language: English
Who he is: British playwright; Arcadia; The Coast of Utopia; Every Good Boy Deserves Favour; Professional Foul; The Real Thing; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Susan Cooper, English Children's Author
(1935 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Susan Cooper
Birth: May 23, 1935, Burnham, England, UK
Language: English
Who she is: English author of children's literature; The Dark Is Rising series (Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree)

Piers Anthony, American Science Fiction Author
(1934 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
Known as: Piers Anthony
Birth: August 6, 1934, Oxford, England, UK
Language: English
Who he is: English American author of science fiction; The Magic of Xanth series

Iris Murdoch, English Novelist and Philosopher
(1919-1999)

Just the Facts:

Name: Jean Iris Murdoch
Known as: Iris Murdoch
Birth: July 15, 1919, Phibsborough, Republic of Ireland
Death: February 8, 1999, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Language: English
Who she was: English novelist and philosopher; Under the Net; The Black Prince; The Sea, the Sea
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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