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Born November 8, 1710 • England
Died April 9, 1768 (aged 57) • Bath • England
Notable Works “The Adventures of David Simple”
Robert Graves
British writer
C. Day-Lewis, 1968.
C. Day-Lewis
British poet
Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
Dorothy L. Sayers
British writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Mark Rutherford, drawing by A. Ford Hughes, late 19th century
Mark Rutherford
British author
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Canadian poet
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist
Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Elio Vittorini
Italian author
Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
Harriet Martineau
British author
Ahmed Ali
Pakistani writer
Michael Frayn
British author and translator
Andrew Lang
British scholar
Arthur Machen
Welsh writer
Rex Warner
British writer
E.R. Eddison
British author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
John Bunyan, pencil drawing on vellum by Robert White; in the British Museum
John Bunyan
English author