British Writers

  • Period: Apr 1, 1400 to

    English writers

  • Apr 22, 1405

    Thomas Malory

    Born 1405 Died 1471 Believed to have wrote Morte de Arthur
  • Apr 17, 1423

    Margaret Paston

    born 1423 died1484 wrote Get Up and Bar the Door
  • Apr 19, 1552

    Edmund Spencer

    Edmund Spencer
    Born 1552 Died 1599 Wrote Sonnet 35
  • Apr 22, 1552

    Walter Raleigh

    Walter Raleigh
    Born 1552 died 1618 Wrote The Nymphs Reply to the Shephard
  • Apr 19, 1554

    Sir Philip Sidney

    Sir Philip Sidney
    Born 1554 Died 1586
    Wrote Sonnet 39
  • Feb 26, 1564

    christopher Marlowe

    christopher Marlowe
    birthday unknown baptized in1564 died 1593 Wrote The Passionat Shepheard to His Love
  • Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakesphere

    William Shakesphere
    Born 1564 died 1616 Wrote Macbeth
  • John Milton

    John Milton
    Born 1608 Died 1674 Wrote Paradise Lost
  • SIr John Suckling

    Born 1609 Died 1642
    wrote Song
  • Daniel Defoe

    Born 1660 Died 1731 Wrote A Journal of the Plague Year
  • Johnathan Swift

    Johnathan Swift
    Born 1667 Died 1745 Wrote A Modest Proposal
  • Robert Burns

    Robert Burns
    Born 1759 Died 1796 Wrote To a Mouse
  • Sydney Smith

    Sydney Smith
    Born 1771 Died 1845 Wrote Progress in Personal Comfort
  • George Orwell

    George Orwell
    Born 1903 Died 1950 Wrote Animal Farm