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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
Jerome K. Jerome
English humorist (1859-1927)
Mary Kingsley
British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer (1862–1900)
Frederick Marryat
British naval officer and novelist (1792–1848)
Dinah Craik
British novelist and poet (1826–1887)
George Borrow
English author (1803–1881)
Robert Michael Ballantyne
Scottish author of juvenile fiction (1825-1894)
Charles Wyville Thomson
Scottish marine zoologist (1830-1882)
Robert Fortune
British botanist
Richard Lemon Lander
Cornish explorer (1804–1834)
Catharine Parr Traill
English-Canadian author and botanical artist (1802-1899)
Maria Graham
British painter and author (1785-1842)
John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton
British politician (1786–1869)
Jane Wells Webb Loudon
English science fiction writer and botanist (1807–1858)
Louisa Anne Meredith
British-Australian writer and illustrator (1812–1895)
James Edward Alexander
Scottish soldier, traveller and author (1803-1885)
Eliza Lynn Linton
English novelist and journalist (1822–1898)
Kate Marsden
British nurse (1859–1931)
Elizabeth Eastlake
British art historian (1809-1893)
James Richardson
explorer
William Gifford Palgrave
British Arabic scholar (1826–1888)
Alexander William Kinglake
English travel writer and historian (1809-1891)
William Balfour Baikie
British explorer and scientist
James Theodore Bent
British archaeologist (1852-1897)
Emily Eden
British writer and artist (1797–1869)
James Baillie Fraser
Scottish travel writer and artist (1783–1856)
Henry Spencer Ashbee
Book collector/writer/bibliographer (1834-1900)
Basil Hall
Royal Navy officer (1788-1844)
Thomas Witlam Atkinson
British architect (1799-1861)
John MacGregor
British canoeist (1825-1892)
James Silk Buckingham
British politician (1786-1855)
Julia Pardoe
British writer (1806–1862)
James Holman
British Royal Navy officer (1787-1857)
William Ellis
English missionary and author (1794–1872)
Florence Marryat
British author and actress (1833-1899)
Thomas Adolphus Trollope
English writer (1810–1892)
Augustus Hare
English writer
William Henry Giles Kingston
English writer of boys' adventure novels (1814–1880)
Robert Hay
Scottish traveller, antiquarian, and early Egyptologist
Richard Ford
English writer (1796-1858)
John Macdonald Kinneir
British diplomat
Anna Eliza Bray
English writer (1790–1883)
Judith Cohen
British travel writer and philanthropist
George Augustus Sala
British journalist (1828-1895)
Albert Richard Smith
British writer (1816–1860)
Frederick Chamier
British writer (1796-1870)
Georgiana Chatterton
British traveller and author (1806-1876)
Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet
British doctor
Henry Koster
English coffee-grower, explorer, botanist and author (c. 1783/84 - 1820)
Elizabeth Heaphy Murray
British artist and travel writer (1815–1882)
Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon
British writer
Anna Brassey
British traveller and writer (1839–1887)
James Payn
English novelist and editor (1830–1898)
Robert Pashley
British economist (1805–1859)
Frances Erskine Inglis
Spanish Marquise and chronicler (1804–1882)
Charles Boner
English poet and travel writer
Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
Traveller and soldier (1842-1885)
Henry Charles Sirr
British lawyer, diplomat and writer (1807–1872)
Godfrey Vigne
cricketer (1801-1863)
Henry Duff Traill
British writer (1842–1900)