Authors of the 18th & 19th Century

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
12/05/1706	Benjamin Franklin	(1706-1790) American writer. Benjamin Franklin was a Boston-born inventor, statesman, patriot, and publisher. He's well-known for his "Autobiography," and for his role in the American Revolution (1775-1783).
10/04/1713	Elizabeth Ashbridge	(1713-1755) Irish/American writer. Elizabeth Ashbridge was an indentured servant who immigrated from Ireland to America in 1732. She later returned to Ireland.
12/05/1730	Oliver Goldsmith	(1730-1774) Irish writer. Oliver Goldsmith was a novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright. He's known for his play, "She Stoops to Conquer," and his novel, "The Vicar of Wakefield."
05/05/1743	Anna Laetitia Aikin	British writer. Anna Laetitia Aikin, also known by her married name, Barbauld, wrote poetry about the early years of Britain's era of world power.
09/20/1748	John Cleland	) British writer. John Cleland is known for his novel "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Or Fanny Hill" (1748-49).
07/04/1804	Nathaniel Hawthorne	NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE was born at Salem, Massachusetts, July 4, 1804, and he died at Plymouth, New Hampshire, May 19, 1864.
01/19/1809	edgar Allen Poe	EDGAR ALLEN POE was born in Boston, January 19, 1809, and after a tempestuous life of forty years, he died in the city of Baltimore, October 7, 1849.
02/17/1812	Charles Dickens	In 1843 he commenced "Martin Chuzzlewit," but this did not sell to meet his expectations. In the same year he wrote the "Christmas Carols." Quitting England again, he settled in Genoa, where he finished "Chuzzlewit," and wrote the "Chimes," his Christmas tale for 1844.
11/30/1835	Mark Twain	SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS, better known as Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Monroe County, Missouri, November 30, 1835. His works have been immensely popular, and have brought him an ample fortune, thus enabling him to devote his entire time to literature.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/01/1700 to 12/31/1900	Famous Authors