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The list 19th-century British short story writers includes Lewis Carroll, W. Somerset Maugham, H.G. Wells, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. The list consists of 92 members and 4 sublists.

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  • 1.

    Virginia Woolf
    English modernist writer (1882–1941)
    Virginia Woolf
    Overview: Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use ...
    Date of birth: 25 January 1882
    Date of death: 28 March 1941
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Pipe smokers 77T
    Lost Generation writers 38T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,252T
  • 2.

    Lewis Carroll
    English, Writer
    Lewis Carroll
    Overview: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (LUT-wij DOD-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer. His most notable ...
    Date of birth: 27 January 1832
    Date of death: 14 January 1898
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    English anti-vivisectionists 47T
    19th-century English diarists 61T
    English writers with disabilities 102T
  • 3.

    W. Somerset Maugham
    English playwright and author (1874–1965)
    W. Somerset Maugham
    Overview: William Somerset Maugham CH ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the ...
    Date of birth: 25 January 1874
    Date of death: 15 December 1965
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    People with tuberculosis 60T
    People with speech impediment 47T
    British male dramatists and playwrights 268T
  • 4.

    H.G. Wells
    English writer (1866–1946)
    H.G. Wells
    Overview: Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography ...
    Date of birth: 21 September 1866
    Date of death: 13 August 1946
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Cycling writers 68T
    British cultural critics 22T
    British anti-capitalists 25T
  • 5.

    Charles Dickens
    English novelist
    Charles Dickens
    Overview: Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the ...
    Date of birth: 7 February 1812
    Date of death: 9 June 1870
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    British ghost story writers 73T
    Dickens family 35T
    19th-century British letter writers 24T
  • 6.

    Thomas Hardy
    British writer
    Thomas Hardy
    Overview: Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism ...
    Date of birth: 2 June 1840
    Date of death: 11 January 1928
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Philosophical pessimists 36T
    Anti-vivisectionists 128T
    British male poets 384T
  • 7.

    Mary Shelley
    English novelist
    Mary Shelley
    Overview: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (, ; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered ...
    Date of birth: 30 August 1797
    Date of death: 1 February 1851
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Shelley family 4T
    British women travel writers 106T
    19th-century English women writers 351T
  • 8.

    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Scottish author of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Overview: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels ...
    Date of birth: 22 May 1859
    Date of death: 7 July 1930
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    Doyle family 8T
    Scottish spiritualists 12T
    Recipients of the Order of the Crown (Italy) 68T
  • 9.

    Joseph Conrad
    Polish-born English novelist
    Joseph Conrad
    Overview: Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he ...
    Date of birth: 3 December 1857
    Date of death: 3 August 1924
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: Polish
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    Philosophical pessimists 36T
    People from Berdichevsky Uyezd 8T
    British psychological fiction writers 5T
  • 10.

    Anthony Trollope
    British writer
    Anthony Trollope
    Overview: Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles ...
    Date of birth: 24 April 1815
    Date of death: 6 December 1882
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England 244T
    Anthony Trollope 4T
    English male short story writers 194T
  • 11.

    Jerome K. Jerome
    English humoroist
    Jerome K. Jerome
    Overview: Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
    Date of birth: 2 May 1859
    Date of death: 14 June 1927
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    19th-century English male writers 472T
    Cycling writers 68T
    20th-century English male writers 1,328T
  • 12.

    W.W. Jacobs
    British writer
    W.W. Jacobs
    Overview: William Wymark Jacobs (8 September 1863 – 1 September 1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. During his career, he was best known for his farcical comedies involving dockside and rural ...
    Date of birth: 8 September 1863
    Date of death: 1 September 1943
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century English novelists 1,317T
    20th-century English writers 497T
    19th-century British novelists 182T
  • 13.

    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Overview: Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for writing Treasure Island, Strange Case of ...
    Date of birth: 13 November 1850
    Date of death: 3 December 1894
    Age: 44 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    Clan Balfour 43T
    Writers of Gothic fiction 106T
    19th-century Scottish novelists 36T
  • 14.

    Rudyard Kipling
    British novelist and poet
    Rudyard Kipling
    Overview: Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work.
    Date of birth: 30 December 1865
    Date of death: 18 January 1936
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    19th-century English non-fiction writers 187T
    20th-century English male writers 1,468T
    Bishop's College School Faculty 17T
  • 15.

    Elizabeth Gaskell
    English novelist, biographer, and short story writer (1810–1865)
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    Overview: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed ...
    Date of birth: 29 September 1810
    Date of death: 12 November 1865
    Age: 55 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century English women writers 351T
    19th-century British women writers 653T
    Knutsford 25T
  • 16.

    William Morris
    British textile artist, author, and socialist (1834–1896)
    William Morris
    Overview: William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor ...
    Date of birth: 24 March 1834
    Date of death: 3 October 1896
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Male
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    Architects from Essex 18T
    Translators of Homer 101T
    Private press movement people 29T
  • 17.

    Edward Lear
    British artist and writer (1812–1888)
    Edward Lear
    Overview: Edward Lear (12 May 1812, Holloway – 29 January 1888, Sanremo) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially ...
    Date of birth: 12 May 1812
    Date of death: 29 January 1888
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    British surrealist artists 65T
    British surrealist writers 17T
    English male painters 2,044T
  • 18.

    Talbot Mundy
    British writer
    Talbot Mundy
    Overview: Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon, 23 April 1879 – 5 August 1940) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under ...
    Date of birth: 23 April 1879
    Date of death: 5 August 1940
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    19th-century English non-fiction writers 173T
    19th-century English male writers 472T
    20th-century English non-fiction writers 123T
  • 19.

    Marie Corelli
    Writer
    Marie Corelli
    Overview: Mary Mackay (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924), known by her pseudonym Marie Corelli (, , ), was an English novelist.
    Date of birth: 1 May 1855
    Date of death: 24 April 1924
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century English women writers 351T
    20th-century English women writers 690T
    19th-century British women writers 653T
  • 20.

    Arnold Bennett
    English novelist
    Arnold Bennett
    Overview: Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He was a prolific writer: between the start of his career in 1898 and his death he completed 34 novels ...
    Date of birth: 27 May 1867
    Date of death: 27 March 1931
    Age: 63 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    Arnold Bennett 2T
    English male dramatists and playwrights 754T
    English male novelists 1,096T
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