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19th-century English non-fiction writers

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Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)
Benjamin Disraeli
British statesman (1804–1881)
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
William Godwin
English journalist, political philosopher and novelist
John Henry Newman
English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)
William Wilberforce
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)
Spencer Perceval
19th-century prime minister of the United Kingdom (1762–1812)
Havelock Ellis
British physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939)
Walter Savage Landor
English writer, poet, and activist (1775–1864)
John William Polidori
English writer and physician (1795–1821)
Marie Corelli
British writer (1855-1924)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
English author (1743–1825)
Jane Ellen Harrison
British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (1850–1928)
James Allen
British philosophical writer (1864–1912)
Hannah More
English writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)
George Borrow
English author (1803–1881)
John Nelson Darby
British Bible teacher, considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism. (1800-1882)
Peter Mark Roget
English physician and philologist (1779-1869)
E. A. Wallis Budge
British academic (1857–1934)
Emily Davies
British suffragist & educator (1830–1921)
Mary Augusta Ward
British novelist (1851-1920)
Isaac D'Israeli
British writer (1766–1848)
William Michael Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite writer and critic (1829-1919)
Clementina Black
British writer and feminist (1853–1922)
Sarah Trimmer
author, editor; (1741-1810); married, in 1762, James Trimmer, of Brentford
Alice Meynell
English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist (1847–1922)
Frances Trollope
English novelist (1779-1863)
Jane Porter
Scottish historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure (1776-1850)
Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
English suffragist
Francis William Newman
English scholar and writer (1805–1897)
Agnes Marshall
English food writer, editor (1855-1905)
Francis Place
English social reformer (1771-1854)
Mary Hays
British writer (1759-1843)
Catherine Gore
British writer (1799–1861)
George Saintsbury
British critic and literary historian (1845–1933)
Francis Asbury
Methodist bishop in America (1745-1816)
Ethelbert William Bullinger
British Anglican clergyman, biblical scholar and theologian (1837-1913)
Matilda Betham-Edwards
English novelist, travel writer, poet and children's writer (1836-1919)
James Theodore Bent
British archaeologist (1852-1897)
J. B. Lightfoot
British bishop and scholar of early Christianity (1828–1889)
Henry Spencer Ashbee
Book collector/writer/bibliographer (1834-1900)
Joseph Wolff
Jewish Christian missionary
Emily Eden
British writer and artist (1797–1869)
Benjamin Samuel Williams
English orchidologist and nurseryman in London (1824-1890)
Charlotte Wilson
British anarchist (1854-1944), editor
Mary Cowden Clarke
British writer (1809–1898)
Ernest Bramah
English author (1868–1942)
Elizabeth Benger
British writer (1775-1827)
Margaret Harkness
English radical journalist and writer, editor
Anne Marsh-Caldwell
English novelist (1791-1874)
Talbot Mundy
British writer, born William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940)
Herbert Ward
British artist and explorer (1863–1919)
Charles Dixon
English ornithologist
Henry Koster
English coffee-grower, explorer, botanist and author (c. 1783/84 - 1820)
Evangeline Booth
General of the Salvation Army (1865–1950)
Georgiana Chatterton
British traveller and author (1806-1876)
William Hayley
British writer (1745-1820)
Edward William Brayley
British geographer (1801-1870)
Edward Bradley
English novelist and clergyman (1827-1889)