Category: Famous Authors of the 19th Century

A

• Colin Gurden Forbes Adam CSI DL 18 Dec 1889 - 12 Nov 1982
• John H. Albee abt 3 Apr 1833 Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States - 26 Mar 1915
• Louisa May Alcott 29 Nov 1832 Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States - 6 Mar 1888
• Hans Christian Andersen 2 Apr 1805 Odense, Fyn, Danmark - 4 Aug 1875
• Jane Austen 16 Dec 1775 Steventon, Hampshire, England - 18 Jul 1817
• Edward Bibbins Aveling 29 Nov 1849 Stoke Newington - 2 Aug 1898

B

• James Matthew Barrie OM 9 May 1860 Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland - 19 Jun 1937
• Francis Julius Bellamy 18 May 1855 Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York, USA - 28 Aug 1931
• Anne Brontë 17 Jan 1820 Thornton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England - 28 May 1849
• Charlotte Brontë 21 Apr 1816 Thornton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom - 31 Mar 1855
• Emily Jane Brontë 30 Jul 1818 Thornton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England - 19 Dec 1848
• Karl Georg Büchner 17 Oct 1813 Goddelau, Germany - 19 Feb 1837
• John Burroughs 3 Apr 1837 Delaware County, New York, USA - 29 Mar 1921
• Richard Francis Burton 19 Mar 1821 Torquay, Devon, England - 20 Oct 1890

C

• John Griffith (Chaney) London 12 Jan 1876 San Francisco, California - 22 Nov 1916
• Philander Chase Sr 14 Dec 1775 Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, - 20 Sep 1852
• Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 29 Jan 1860 Taganrog, Russia - 15 Jul 1904
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens 30 Nov 1835 Florida, Monroe Co, Missouri, USA - 21 Apr 1910

C cont.

• William Wilkie Collins 8 Jan 1824 Marylebone, London, England - 23 Sep 1889
• James Fenimore Cooper 15 Sep 1789 Burlington, New Jersey, USA - 14 Sep 1851
• Stephen Crane 1 Nov 1871 Newark, New Jersey - 5 Jun 1900

D

• Richard Henry Dana Jr. 1 Aug 1815 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts - 6 Jan 1882
• Charles John Huffam Dickens 7 Feb 1812 Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK - 9 Jun 1870
• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 27 Jan 1832 Daresbury, Cheshire, England - 14 Jan 1898
• Florence Caroline (Douglas) Dixie 24 May 1855 Kinmount, Cummertrees, Dumfriesshire, Scotland - 7 Nov 1905
• Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KGStJ 22 May 1859 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 7 Jul 1930

E

• Mary Anne (Evans) Cross 22 Nov 1819 Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England - 22 Dec 1880

F

• Gustave Flaubert 12 Dec 1821 Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France - 8 May 1880

G

• Tabitha (Gilman) Tenney 7 Apr 1762 Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire - 2 May 1837

H

• Helena Petrovna (Hahn) Blavatsky 12 Aug 1831 Yekaterinoslav - 8 May 1891
• Caroline (Howard) Gilman 1 Oct 1794 Boston, Massachusetts - 15 Sep 1888

I

• Henrik Johan Ibsen 20 Mar 1828 Skien, Grenland, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway - 23 May 1906

J

• Henry James OM 15 Apr 1843 New York City - 28 Feb 1916
• Julius Jeffreys FRS 14 Sep 1800 Hall Place, Bexley, Kent, England - 13 May 1877

L

• Celia (Laighton) Thaxter 29 Jun 1835 Portsmouth, New Hampshire - 25 Aug 1894

M

• Eleanor Marx 16 Jan 1855 - 31 Mar 1898
• Karl Heinrich Marx 5 May 1818 (Treves), 664 Brückergasse in Trier, Province of the Lower Rhine, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) - 14 Mar 1883

M cont.

• Lucy Maud (Montgomery) MacDonald O.B.E. 30 Nov 1874 Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Canada - 24 Apr 1942

N

• Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 15 Oct 1844 Röcken, Merseburg, Sachsen, Preußen, Deutschland - 25 Aug 1900

P

• Sarah (Pogson) Pogson Smith 17 Sep 1774 Woodside House, Essex, England - 24 Jul 1870
• Charles Henry Pope 18 Oct 1841 Machias, Washington, Maine - 19 Feb 1918

R

• William Clark Russell 24 Feb 1844 Carlton House Hotel, Broadway, New York, United States of America - 8 Nov 1911
• John Charles Ryle DD 10 May 1816 Macclesfield, Cheshire, England - 10 Jun 1900

S

• Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson 13 Nov 1850 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 3 Dec 1894
• Abraham Stoker 8 Nov 1847 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland - 20 Apr 1912

T

• William Makepeace Thackeray 18 Jul 1811 Calcutta, British India - 24 Dec 1863
• Richard (Trench) Chenevix Trench 9 Sep 1807 Dublin, Ireland - 27 Mar 1886

V

• Jules Gabriel Verne 8 Feb 1828 Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France - 24 Mar 1905
• Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny (VonWestphalen) Marx 12 Feb 1814 Salzwedel - 2 Dec 1881

W

• Lewis Wallace 10 Apr 1827 Brookville, Indiana, USA - 15 Feb 1905
• Mason Locke Weems 1 Oct 1759 Marshes Seat Calvert, Anne Arundel, Maryland - 23 May 1825
• Herbert George Wells 21 Sep 1866 Bromley, Kent, England, United Kingdom - 13 Aug 1946
• Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde 16 Oct 1854 Dublin, Ireland - 30 Nov 1900

Z

• Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola 2 Apr 1840 Paris, Seine, France - 29 Sep 1902