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• Elizabeth Barret Browning 19th century, English poet popular both in england and the US, sonnets from the portuguese
• Emily Dickinson 19th century, american poet, considered strange when alive - now one of the greatest, rhymes, no husband but maybe relationship with sister-in-law
• Walt Whitman 19th century, American poet, essayist and journalist, humanist-helped soldiers during war, part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, gay?, stroke
• Lord Byron 18th to 19th century, english poet and satirist, clubfoot, affairs(incest), daughter - Ada Lovelace, Greece war
• Christina Rossett 19th century, English poem writer, worked with ex-prostitutes, cancer, love…
• Virginia Woolf 19th to 20th century, English writer, pioneer using stream of consciousness as narrative, bipolar disorder → no children, feminism, girlfriend?
• Clement C.Moore late 18th century to 19th century, American writer and real estate developer, newspaper… a lot of christmas stories, “founder of modern christmas/santa”
• J.M. Coetzee 20th to 21st century, South african-Australian novelist, nobelprize, well educated-teacher,
• Lord Tennyson 19th century, English poet, our new years tradition
• Jonathan Swift 17th to 18th century, Anglo-Irish satirical writer, paved the way for political writers
• Roald Dahl 20th century, british novelist with roots in Norway, lots of children stories
• Bob Dylan 20th to 21st century, American singer songwriter, nobel prize 2016, civil rights activist
• Joyce Carol Oates early 20th century to today, american writer, raised catholic but now atheist, feminist
• William Shakespeare late 16th century to early 17th century, English playwright, greatest writer (poems & plays)
• Charles Dickens 19th century, english writer and social critic, memorable characters

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