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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.
Christopher Marlowe
English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593)
John Dryden
17th-century English poet and playwright (1631–1700)
William Congreve
British writer (1670-1729)
Thomas Wyatt
English poet and diplomat (1503-1542)

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
16th-century English nobleman; (1516-1547)
Clara Reeve
English writer, novelist, translator (1729-1807)
John Lydgate
English monk and poet (c.1370–c.1451)

Wendy Beckett
British Catholic nun and presenter of documentaries for the BBC on the history of art (1930-2018)
Peter Green
British historian and novelist (1924–2024)
Lucy Hutchinson
British writer (1620-1681)
Arthur Golding
16th-century English linguist and translator
Anne Bacon
English scholar
A. E. Stallings
American poet, translator, and essayist (born 1968)
Charles George Herbermann
American academic (1840–1916)
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles
British theologian (1813–1875)
Philemon Holland
English schoolmaster, physician, and Classics translator

Roger Mynors
British classical scholar (1903–1989)
Philip Francis
Irish priest and translator (1708-1773)
Samuel Parsons Scott
American lawyer
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet, critic and translator (1910–1985)
Robert Fagles
American university teacher, translator and poet (1933–2008)
John Conington
British classical scholar (1825–1869)
William Sotheby
British translator (1757-1833)
Anna Hume
Scottish translator, poet, writer

Robert Ainsworth
English lexicographer and author
Abraham Fleming
English writer and clergyman (c. 1552–1607)
Alexander Fidora
researcher
Robert Willis
Scottish physician, librarian, and medical historian
Barnabe Googe
English politician (1540-1594)
John Davies
Welsh translator and writer, born 1625