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- Lawrence, D.H. – English novelist
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- Poe, Edgar Allan – American short story author, editor, & poet
- Porter, Eleanor H.
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- Rice, Alice Hegan
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- Richmond, Grace S.
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- Rohmer, Sax
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- Shakespeare, William – Greatest English dramatist & poet
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- Sidney, Margaret
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- Synge, J. M.
- Tagore, Rabindranath – Indian educator & Bengali poet
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- Thackeray, William Makepeace – English novelist
- Thoreau, Henry David – American Transcendentalist author
- Tolstoy, Leo – Russian mystic & novelist
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- Turgenev, Ivan S.
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- Vance, Louis Joseph
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- Virgil – Roman epic poet
- Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet – French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist
- Wallace, Edgar
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- Washington, Booker T. – American educator
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- Wharton, Edith – American novelist
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- Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Wilde, Oscar – Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
- Wodehouse, P. G. – British humorist & novelist in US
- Woolf, Virginia – English novelist
- Wordsworth, William – English poet
- Yeats, William Butler – Irish dramatist & poet
- Yonge, Charlotte M.
- Zola, Emile
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