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19th-century English male writers

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John Keats
English Romantic poet (1795–1821)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
Benjamin Disraeli
British statesman (1804–1881)
William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
Thomas Paine
American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
Alfred Tennyson
British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)
William Somerset Maugham
English playwright and author (1874–1965)
Thomas Robert Malthus
British political economist (1766–1834)
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English mathematician, philosopher and logician (1815–1864)
Jerome K. Jerome
English humorist (1859-1927)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
British historian and politician (1800–1859)
William Godwin
English journalist, political philosopher and novelist
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
John Henry Newman
English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)
Robert Southey
English romantic poet (1774–1843)
Thomas Stamford Raffles
British statesman who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
Thomas De Quincey
British author (1785-1859)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846–1852 and 1865–1866 (1792–1878)
William Wilberforce
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)
Walter Bagehot
British journalist, businessman, and essayist (1826-1877)
Charles Kingsley
British clergyman, historian and novelist (1819–1875)
Henry Thomas Buckle
English historian (1821–1862)
Matthew Gregory Lewis
English novelist and dramatist (1775–1818)
John Snow
English epidemiologist and physician (1813–1858)
William Thomas Stead
English newspaper editor (1849–1912)
William Beckford
English slaver, art collector, and novelist (1760–1844)
Henry Sidgwick
English philosopher (1838–1900)
Edwin Abbott Abbott
British theologian and author (1838-1926)
John William Polidori
English writer and physician (1795–1821)
Edwin Arnold
English poet and journalist (1832–1904)
Frederick Marryat
British naval officer and novelist (1792–1848)
Israel Zangwill
British Zionist author (1864–1926)
William Harrison Ainsworth
English novelist (1805-1882)
John Clare
English poet (1793-1864)
George Crabbe
English poet, surgeon, and clergyman (1754-1832)
William Ernest Henley
English poet, critic and editor (1849–1903)
Thomas Love Peacock
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company (1785–1866)
William Cobbett
English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist (1763–1835)
G. M. Trevelyan
British historian (1876–1962)
James Allen
British philosophical writer (1864–1912)
Arthur Wing Pinero
British writer (1855-1934)
John Nelson Darby
British Bible teacher, considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism. (1800-1882)
Henry James Sumner Maine
British jurist and historian (1822–1888)
Benjamin Jowett
English writer and classical scholar (1817–1893)
Sabine Baring-Gould
English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, eclectic scholar, folk song collector (1834-1924)
Charles Reade
British novelist and dramatist (1814–1884)
Hudson Taylor
British Protestant missionary in China
Leslie Stephen
English writer and mountaineer (1832–1904)
Ernest Dowson
English writer (1867-1900)
Robert Bridges
British writer (1844-1930)
Edward Frederic Benson
English novelist and writer (1867–1940)
Douglas William Jerrold
English dramatist and writer (1803-1857)
Thomas Hodgskin
British writer (1787-1869)
Frederick Rolfe
British writer, photographer and historian (1860-1913)
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
English novelist (1825-1900)
Francis Thompson
British poet (1859-1907)
Frederic William Henry Myers
English poet and essayist (1843–1901)
Philip James Bailey
British writer and poet (1816–1902)
William Roscoe
English historian, abolitionist, art collector, politician, lawyer, banker, botanist and writer (1753-1831)
Edwin Atherstone
British writer (1788-1872)