Category
page 1Writers from Shropshire
William Hazlitt
English essayist and writer (1778–1830)

Orderic Vitalis
English monk and historian (1075 – c. 1142)

Mary Beard
English classicist (born 1955)

Alexander of Hales
English Franciscan theologian and philosopher (c.1185-1245)
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
English soldier and poet (1583–1648)
Edith Pargeter
British writer
Barbara Pym
British writer (1913–1980)
Eliot Higgins
British citizen journalist and former blogger
Mary Webb
English writer and poet (1881–1927)
Stella Benson
British writer (1892–1933)
Thomas Hyde
British orientalist (1636-1703)
William Cureton
British orientalist (1808–1864)
Mary Cholmondeley
British writer (1859-1925)
Richard Barnfield
English poet

Samuel Lee
English Orientalist, born in Shropshire; professor at Cambridge (1783-1852)
Hesba Stretton
British writer (1832–1911)

Keith Kissack
British historian (1913–2010)
George Shelvocke
English naval officer and privateer
Marjorie Chibnall
British historian (1915-2012)
Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis
traveller and scientific collector (1758-1830)

Hannah Cullwick
British writer
Charlotte Sophia Burne
Author, editor and folklorist
Abraham Fraunce
English poet
Richard Gifford
British writer