British Writers: D - G

This project is a place to gather together profiles of British born writers of all genres. Those with bold links have profiles on Geni. Links that are not bold are to other sources.

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D

• Charlotte Dacre
• Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990)
• Sophie Dahl (b. 1977 - English author, cookbook writer and former model
• Donna Daley-Clarke
• Clemence Dane
• Alicia D'Anvers
• Julia Darling
• Elizabeth Daryush
• Sir William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 – 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright.
• Janina David
• Ian Davidson - British radio and television scriptwriter who also acted, directed and produced in television and the theatre from the 1960's. After performing and writing with Michael Palin and Terry Jones at Oxford University - his first BBC writing credit was for 'That Was The Week That Was' in 1963
• Julia Davis (1859 - 1916) English novelist under the name 'Frank Danby'
• Richard Dawkins, FRS b. 1941 in Kenya
• Stanley De Brath (1854-1937), M.Inst.C.E.
• Daniel Defoe (Foe) (c. 1660-1731)
• Thomas Dekker
• E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author
• Mary Delany
• Shelagh Delaney (1939 - 2011)
• Nigel Dempster (1941 - 2007)
• Dame Judi Dench DBE (b. 1934)
• John Denham (1614/5-1669) Anglo-Irish poet and courtier
• Hugh Dennis (born 1962) (Peter Hugh Dennis) English comedian, actor, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist - author of Britty Britty Bang Bang: One Man's Attempt to Understand His Country
• Charles Dickens
• James Dickson (Botanist) - botanical publications
• Sir Kenelm Digby (c.1603 - c.1665)
• Emilia, Lady Dilke (1840 - 1904)
• Jonathan Dimbleby
• Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom MP (1804 - 1881)
• Lady Florence Dixie (1855 - 1905)
• Ella Hepworth Dixon
• John Donne (1572–1631) English poet, satirist, lawyer and cleric.
• Lord Alfred Douglas (1870 - 1945)
• Robert Langton Douglas (1864 - 1951) known professionally as R. Langton Douglas, was a well-known British art critic, lecturer, and author
• Hon. William Douglas-Home (1912 - 1992)
• Ernest Dowson
• Judith Drake
• Michael Drayton (1563 – 1631) English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era.
• Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell (1905 - 1976)
• Amelia Fiona "Minnie" J. Driver (born 1970) Englishactress and singer-songwriter. Lyricist
• John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright
• Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
• Alice Dudeney
• Maureen Duffy (1933- ) English Poet, writer
• Nell Dunn
• Dorothy Dunnett (1923-2001) Scottish novelist best known for her historical fiction.
• du Maurier - see L-P
• Olivia Melian Durdin-Robertson (1917 - 2013)

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E

• Mary Emma Ebsworth
• Jenny Eclair
• Emily Eden
• Maria Edgeworth Maria Edgeworth] Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature
• John Emerich Edward, 1st Baron Acton (1834 - 1902)
• Rev. Richard Edwardes (1523 - 1566) was an English poet and playwright;
• Elizabeth Egerton
• Sarah Fyge Egerton
• Elizabeth Eiloart
• Caroline Alice Elgar
• T S Eliot (1888-1965)
• George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
• Frances Minto Elliot
• Charlotte Elliott
• Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy
• Elizabeth Elstob
• Tracey Karima Emin, CBE, RA (born 1963) artist, poet, writer, momoirist, autobiographer
• Henry Vernon Esmond (1869 - 1922)
• Erastes (author)
• Barbara Erskine
• John Evelyn (1620-1706)

F

• Marianne Evelyn Faithfull (born 1946) English singer, songwriter and actress. Autobiographer
• John Meade Falkner (1858 - 1932)
• Julian Charles Fane (1927 - 2009)
• Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (c.1601 - 1665)
• Violet Fane
• U. A. Fanthorpe
• Edward Faragher (1831–1908 (Manx)
• Eleanor Farjeon (1881 – 1965) English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire.
• Herbert Farjeon (1887 – 1945) - presenter of revues in London's West End, a theatre critic, lyricist, librettist, playwright, theatre manager and researcher
• Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883 – 1955) British writer, journalist and playwright who generally wrote thriller and mystery novels, but also authored several plays
• Mary Aline Farmar, CBE (1912 - 2002)
• George Farquhar (?1677-1707)
• Sebastian Faulkes b 1953
• Vicki Feaver
• Elaine Feinstein
• Margaret Fell
• Julian Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford
• Ellenor Fenn
• Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae (1911 - 1980)
• Robert Fergusson
• Daphne Fielding
• Henry Fielding (1707-54)
• Major Xan Fielding, DSO (1918 - 1991)
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
• Judith "Judy" Finnigan (born 1948) English television presenter, author, novelist and columnist. Autobiographer
• Herbert William Fisher (1826 - 1903)
• Penelope Fitzgerald (1916 - 2000)
• Sir Anthony Fitzherbert legal writer
• The Hon. General Richard Fitzpatrick (1748 - 1813)
• John Fletcher
• Penelope Fletcher
• Ian Fleming (1908 - 1964)
• Peter Fleming (1907 - 1971)
• Daniel Foe (1659 - 1731)
• Ken Follett (born 5 June 1949) Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels
• Michael Richard Daniell Foot CBE
• Elena Forbes
• E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
• John Robert Fowles (1926 – 2005) was an English novelist
• * Adam Fox (1883-1977) Oxford, Professor of Poetry, Canon of Westminster
• Mary Frampton
• Gilbert Frankau (1884 - 1952)
• Charlotte Franken (1894 - 1969)
• Caroline Rosetta Small (1829–1908), better known by the pen name Mrs. Alexander Fraser was romance writer of Victorian era
• Anthea Fraser
• Antonia Fraser Lady Antonia Fraser
• General Sir David William Fraser, GCB, OBE (1920 - 2012)
• Douglas William Freshfield (1845 - 1934)
• Esther Freud (born 1963) - British novelist.
• Clare Consuelo Frewen (1885 - 1970)
• Sir David Frost, OBE (1939 - 2013)
• James Anthony Froude (1818 – 1894) English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine.
• Christopher Fry (1907 - 2005)
• Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director
• Rose Fyleman

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G

• John Galsworthy (1867-1933) (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932)
• Kenneth Cecil Gandar-Dower (1908 - 1944)
• David Garnett (1892 – 1981) British writer and publisher.
• David Garrick (1717 – 1779) English actor, playwright, theatre manager
• Viola Garvin
• David Gascoyne (1916 - 2001)
• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865)
• Josceline Rose Gaskell
• Colonel John Cox Gawler
• John Gay (1685 – 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728)
• Stella Gibbons
• A. Hamilton Gibbs (1888 - 1964)
• Sir Philip Gibbs (1877 - 1962)
• Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878 – 1962) British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.
• William Gifford (1756 – 1826) English critic, editor and poet, famous as a satirist and controversialist.
• Sir George Geoffrey Gilbert, CBE, KBE (1887-1929) The Tory Tradition - lectures
• Lewis Gilbert, CBE (1920 - d.) British screenwriter, producer, film director.
• Martin John Gilbert (1936-2015)
• W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
• Penelope Gilliatt (1932 - 1993)
• George Robert Gissing (1857-1903)
• Elinor Glyn
• Rumer Godden
• Salena Godden
• William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) - journalist, political philosopher and novelist,
• William Golding (1911-1993) William Golding is best known for his novel Lord of the Flies (1954).
• Jane Goldman
• Jane Gomeldon
• Leonard Gordon "Len" Goodman (born 1944) English professional ballroom dancer, dance judge, and coach. Writer of a number of books. Autobiographer
• Jade Goody
• Catherine Gore
• Thomas Gore heraldic writer
• Oliver Goldsmith (?1730-74)
• Harry Golombek OBE (1911 – 1995) British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, and chess author.
• Kenneth Grahame (1859 – 1932) Scottish writer, The Wind in the Willows
• Thomas Gray 1716-71)
• Sheilah Graham-Westbrook
• Sarah Grand
• Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985) English poet, novelist, critic, and classicist. Biographer, Autobiographer
• Maxwell Gray
• Graham Greene (1904–91)
• The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO (1888 – 1915), British soldier and poet of WW1
• Frances Greville
• Elizabeth Caroline Grey
• Jacob Thomas Grien (b. - 1935)
• Jane Griffiths (poet)
• Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) British poet, writer, critic and naturalist.
• Jane Grigson (1928 - 1990)
• Elizabeth Grimston
• George Grote (1794-1871) Historian, Biographer (Socrates, Plato) Poet
• Harriet Grote born Lewin (1792-1878) English biographer, wife to George Grote
• Tanika Gupta
• Ivor Bertie Gurney (1890 – 1937) English composer and poet.
• John Henry Gurney (1819-1890) Most of his writing was on the birds of Norfolk, but he also wrote on African birds and edited others' work.
• Thomas Anstey Guthrie (856 - 1934)

References and Sources

• Women's History Month - Wordpress
• WIKI - British Writers
• WIKI British Literature
• WIKI Writers
• Literature British Council - Writers
• The Guardian - Black British Writers
• Oxford Royale - Britains Famous Writers History

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