British writers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries By Artenglish Period: 1700 to 1748 James Thomson Period: 1707 to 1754 Henry Fielding Period: 1709 to 1784 Samuel Johnson Period: 1713 to 1768 Laurence Sterne Period: 1716 to 1771 Thomas Gray Period: 1721 to 1971 Tobias Smollett Period: 1722 to 1771 Christopher Smart Period: 1727 to 1805 Arthur Murphy Period: 1728 to 1774 Oliver Goldsmith Period: 1731 to 1800 William Cowper Period: 1751 to 1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Period: 1752 to 1770 Thomas Chatterton Period: 1757 to 1827 William Blake Period: 1759 to 1796 Robert Burns Period: 1770 to 1850 William Wordsworth Period: 1771 to 1832 Walter Scott Period: 1772 to 1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Period: 1774 to 1843 Robert Southey Period: 1775 to 1817 Jane Austen Period: 1785 to 1859 Thomas De Quincey Period: 1788 to 1824 Lord Byron Period: 1792 to 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley Period: 1795 to 1864 John Clare Period: 1795 to 1821 John Keats Period: 1806 to 1861 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Period: 1809 to 1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Period: 1810 to 1865 Elizabeth Gaskell Period: 1811 to 1863 William Makepeace Thackeray Period: 1812 to 1870 Charles Dickens Period: 1812 to 1889 Robert Browning Period: 1815 to 1882 Anthony Trollope Period: 1816 to 1855 Charlotte Brontë Period: 1818 to 1848 Emily Brontë Period: 1819 to 1861 Arthur Clough Period: 1819 to 1880 George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) Period: 1820 to 1849 Anne Brontë Period: 1822 to 1888 Matthew Arnold Period: 1828 to 1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Period: 1828 to 1909 George Meredith Period: 1832 to 1898 Lewis Carroll Period: 1836 to 1911 W. S. Gilbert Period: 1840 to 1928 Thomas Hardy Period: 1844 to 1889 Gerard Manley Hopkins Period: 1849 to 1863 Gerard Manley Hopkins Period: 1850 to 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson Period: 1854 to 1900 Oscar Wilde Period: 1856 to 1950 George Bernard Shaw Period: 1857 to 1903 George Gissing Period: 1857 to 1924 Joseph Conrad Period: 1859 to 1936 A. E. Housman Period: 1866 to 1946 H. G. Wells Period: 1873 to 1956 Walter de la Mare Period: 1878 to 1917 Edward Thomas Period: 1878 to 1967 John Masefield Period: 1886 to 1947 Hugh Lofting Period: 1890 to 1976 Dame Agatha Christie Period: 1893 to 1957 Dorothy L. Sayers Period: 1897 to 1968 Enid Blyton Period: 1902 to 1974 Georgette Heyer Period: 1903 to 1969 John Wyndham Period: 1903 to 1992 Mary Norton Period: 1904 to 1972 Cecil Day-Lewis Period: 1904 to 1966 Margery Allingham Period: 1906 to 1964 T. H. White Period: 1907 to 1963 Louis MacNeice Period: 1907 to 1973 W. H. Auden Period: 1911 to 1968 Mervyn Peake Period: 1915 to 1944 Alun Lewis Period: 1920 to 1944 Keith Douglas Period: 1922 to 1987 Alistair MacLean Period: 1922 to 1985 Philip Larkin Period: 1927 to 2015 Charles Tomlinson Period: 1927 to 2020 Lamming Period: 1930 to 2008 Harold Pinter Period: 1930 to 2009 J. G. Ballard Period: 1930 to 1998 Ted Hughes Period: 1932 to 2016 Geoffrey Hill Period: 1932 to 2020 Kenneth Grahame Period: 1932 to 2020 Sir V. S. Naipaul Period: 1933 to 2020 Michael Frayn Period: 1934 to 2020 Alasdair Gray Period: 1937 to 2020 Tony Harrison Period: 1937 to 2020 Tom Stoppard Period: 1937 to 2020 Tom Stoppard Period: 1938 to 2020 Frederick Forsyth Period: 1939 to 2020 Michael Longley Period: 1943 to 2020 Barker Period: 1947 to 2020 David Hare Period: 1948 to 2020 David Edgar Period: 1948 to 2020 Ian McEwan Period: 1948 to 2020 Sir Terry Pratchett Period: 1949 to 2020 Ken Follett Period: 1949 to 2020 Martin Amis Period: 1954 to 2020 Hanif Kureshi Period: 1965 to 2020 A. L. Kennedy Period: 1965 to 2020 J. K. Rowling