Category
page 1English book editors
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.

Samuel Richardson
English writer and printer (1689–1761)
Christopher Tolkien
literary scholar, writer, and editor (1924–2020)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
English author (1743–1825)

Margaret Drabble
British novelist, biographer, and critic
Thomas Percy
Irish Anglican bishop (1729-1811)
George Grove
English writer on music and director of the Royal College of Music (1820-1900)
Diana Mosley
British fascist, writer and editor (1910–2003)
Andrew Motion
poet, novelist and biographer from England (born 1952)
Nigel Warburton
British author and lecturer
Jonathan Bowen
British computer scientist
Diana Athill
British literary editor, novelist, memoirist (1917–2019)
Jonathan Clements
British author and scriptwriter (born 1971)
Charlotte Elliott
English poet, hymn writer, editor (1789-1871)
George Saintsbury
British critic and literary historian (1845–1933)
William Warburton
Bishop of Gloucester (1698-1779)
Sarah Austin
English editor/translator from German

Edward Garnett
British writer and critic (1868–1937)

Julia Pardoe
British writer (1806–1862)
Charles Knight
British publisher, editor and author (1791–1873)
Lewis Theobald
English editor and author
Gary Russell
writer
John Harris
English writer, scientist, and Anglican priest (1666–1719)
Terrance Dicks
English writer (1935–2019)
John Hawkesworth
English writer (c1715-1773)
John E. B. Mayor
British classical scholar (1825-1910)

Bertram Fletcher Robinson
Author, Journalist and Sportsman (1870-1907)
Sir Thomas Hanmer
4th Baronet Hanmer, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Shakespearean editor (1677–1746)
Cynthia Asquith
British writer (1887-1960)
Samuel Carter Hall
Irish-born Victorian journalist (1800-1889)
Joseph Ames
English bibliographer and antiquary
Josiah Conder
British writer (1789-1855)

John Edmund Cox
English priest and author (1812–1890)
Alfred Henry Miles
British writer
Humphry Ward
British art collector, author and journalist (1845-1926)
Lewis Melville
English author

Charles Butler
British lawyer and writer
Oscar Parkes
British marine artist and naval historian (1885-1958)
Abraham Fleming
English writer and clergyman (c. 1552–1607)