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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.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
Charlotte Brontë
British novelist and poet (1816-1855)
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
Desmond Tutu
South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner (1931–2021)
Anne Brontë
British novelist and poet (1820-1849)
Thomas Robert Malthus
British political economist (1766–1834)
James Fenimore Cooper
American writer (1789–1851)
Laurence Sterne
Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (1713–1768)
William Cowper
English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)
William Wilberforce
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)
Dorothy L. Sayers
English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)
Alan Paton
South African writer and activist (1903-1988)
Charles Kingsley
British clergyman, historian and novelist (1819–1875)
Robert Jordan
American fantasy writer (1948–2007)
Josephine Butler
British feminist and social reformer fighting to end child prostitution (1828–1906)
Hanan Ashrawi
Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar (born 1946)
Vera Brittain
English writer (1893-1970)
George Whitefield
English minister and preacher
Anne Conway
English philosopher
Hannah More
English writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)
Thomas Hughes
English lawyer, judge, politician and author (1822–1896)
Elizabeth Goudge
English fiction writer (1900-1984)
Richard Wurmbrand
Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent (1909-2001)
Sadhu Sundar Singh
Indian missionary (1889–1929)
N. T. Wright
Anglican bishop
John Stott
British theologian (1921–2011)
A. C. Benson
English essayist and poet, 1862–1925 (1862–1925)
Elizabeth Carter
English poet and polymath (1717 – 1806)
Stanley Hauerwas
American theologian
Reginald Heber
English clergyman, Lord Bishop of Calcutta
J. I. Packer
Canadian theologian (1926-2020)
Andrew Linzey
British theologian, priest and animal rights activist
Joseph Wolff
Jewish Christian missionary
Rachel Held Evans
American Christian writer (1981–2019)
Ethelbert William Bullinger
British Anglican clergyman, biblical scholar and theologian (1837-1913)
J. B. Lightfoot
British bishop and scholar of early Christianity (1828–1889)
Conyers Middleton
English 18th-century clergyman and writer
John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham
British writer, historian and politician (1924-2001)
Catherine Winkworth
English hymn translator (1827–1878)
Sarah Doudney
British fiction and children's writer (1841–1926)
David Sheppard
English cleric and cricketer (1929-2005)
Stephen L. Carter
American legal academic and writer
Maude Royden
British suffragist, editor (1876-1956)
William Gilpin
British artist (1724-1804)
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
British writer, editor
Os Guinness
American writer
Barbara Hofland
English writer
Andrew Watson
British Anglican bishop (1961–2026)
Elisabeth Elliot
American Christian missionary (1926-2015)
Nicky Gumbel
British priest
Louisa Hubbard
English feminist writer and activist, editor (1836–1906)
Charles E. Raven
British theologian
Thomas Schirrmacher
Christian university lecturer in systematic theology and moral philosophy, rector of the Martin Bucer Seminary
Christabel Rose Coleridge
English female novelist
Leon Morris
Australian theologian (1914-2006)
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
English Christian socialist leader
Juliana Horatia Ewing
English writer of children's stories