Category
page 118th-century English non-fiction writers
Alexander Pope
English poet (1688–1744)
Edward Gibbon
English historian and politician (1737–1794)
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
Joseph Addison
English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672–1719)
William Godwin
English journalist, political philosopher and novelist
Spencer Perceval
19th-century prime minister of the United Kingdom (1762–1812)
William Dampier
British pirate and explorer (1651-1715)
William Blackstone
English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
British noble (1735-1811)
Walter Savage Landor
English writer, poet, and activist (1775–1864)
Mary Astell
English feminist writer (1666-1731)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
English author (1743–1825)
Joseph Butler
English bishop and philosopher (1692–1752)
Charles Wesley
English Methodist and hymn writer (1707-1788)

Isaac Watts
English hymnwriter, theologian and logician (1674-1748)

Hannah More
English writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)
Clara Reeve
English writer, novelist, translator (1729-1807)
Hannah Glasse
British cookery writer (1708-1770)
Sarah Trimmer
author, editor; (1741-1810); married, in 1762, James Trimmer, of Brentford
Mary Hays
British writer (1759-1843)
Francis Asbury
Methodist bishop in America (1745-1816)
John Lawson
English explorer, naturalist and writer
John Mills
English writer on agriculture, translator and editor
Joseph Warton
English literary critic; (1722-1800)
Lewis Theobald
English editor and author
Elizabeth Raffald
English author, innovator, entrepreneur (1733-1781)
William Hayley
British writer (1745-1820)
Celia Fiennes
travel writer (1662-1741)
Caleb Hillier Parry
English physician (1755-1822)
Martha Mears
British midwife and writer
Soame Jenyns
British writer and politician (1704-1787)
William Falconer
FRS; English physician and miscellaneous writer
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English writer and architectural theorist (1703–1754)
James Granger
English biographer

Thomas Scott
preacher and author, died 1821
Edmund Calamy
English Nonconformist minister and historian (1671-1732)
Richard Brookes
English physician, author, geographer and illustrator (1721-1763)

Anne Steele
English hymn writer, essayist
Maria Elizabetha Jacson
English botanist and writer (1755-1829)
Elizabeth Helme
British writer
Daniel Wilson
Bishop of Calcutta (1778-1858)
John Berridge
British priest
Thomas Tryon
English writer (1634–1703)

Charles Catton the younger
British artist (1756-1819)

Samuel Sharp
English surgeon and author