British Writers: H - K

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H

• Grace Eleanor Hadow (1875 - 1940)
• Sir William Henry Hadow CBE (1859 - 1937)
• H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
• Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) British senior officer during the First World War. Diarist
• Arthur Hailey (1920-2004)
• Richard Hakluyt, M.A., D.D. MP (c.1553 - 1616) English writer, editor
• Naomi Margaret Haldane (1897 - 1999)
• J.B.S. Haldane (1892 - 1964)
• Patricia Hall (novelist)
• Marion Rose Halpenny
• Cicely Hamilton
• Cosmo Hamilton (1870 - 1942)
• Sarah Jane Hamilton
• Sheila Cameron Hancock, CBE (born 22 February 1933) English actress and author
• George Hardinge (1743 - 1816)
• Nicholas Hardinge (1699 - 1758)
• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
• John Harington, MP, of Kelston (c.1517-1582) - poet
• Sir John Harington (also spelled Harrington) (1561 – 1612), of Kelston, was a courtier, author and master of art.
• Beatrice Harraden
• Joanne Harris (born 1964), author of Chocolat, Five Quarters of the Orange
• Dominick Roy Harrod (1940 – 2013) -journalist and broadcaster.
• Sir Roy Harrod (1900 - 1978) Economist ~ biographer of John Maynard Keynes.
• Phyllis Hartnoll
• Lucy Hastings
• Frances Ridley Havergal
• Nigel Allan Havers (born 1951) English actor, autobiographer
• Rev. Hugh Reginald Haweis (1838-1901)
• Mary Hays
• Eliza Haywood
• Rev. William Hazlitt (1737 - 1820) Unitarian minister and author
• William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
• William Hazlitt (1811-1893) English lawyer, author, and translator
• William Carew Hazlitt (1834 - 1913)
• Edna May Healey, Baroness Healey (1918 - 2010)
• Robert David Quixano Henriques (1905 - 1967) British writer, broadcaster and farmer.
• Lucy Herbert (writer)
• Robert Herrick
• George Herbert (1593–1633)
• Phoebe Hesketh
• Georgette Heyer
• Susanna Highmore
• Miranda Hill
• Susan Hill
• Susan Hillmore
• Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949 - 2011)
• Penelope Hobhouse MBE British garden writer, designer, lecturer and television presenter
• John Hobson
• Gerard Hoffnung (1925 - 1959)
• Barbara Hofland
• William Hogarth (1697-1764)
• James Hogg (1770-1835)
• William Holder FRS (1616-1697)
• Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
• Jane Holland
• Alex Hollywood Born Alexandra K Moores. 1964. Cookery writer
• Paul John Hollywood Baker, Celebrity Chef - cookery books and Journalist
• Winifred Holtby
• Teresa Hooley
• Anthony Hope
• Murry Hope
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was an English poet
• Lizzie Hopley
• Nick Hornby (born 1957), author of About a Boy (1998)
• Kenneth Horne (1907 - 1969)
• Ernest William Hornung author of "Raffles" - War Poet
• Frances Horovitz
• Edward Horton Hubbard (1937 – 1989) English architectural historian who worked with Nikolaus Pevsner in compiling volumes of the Buildings of England. He also wrote the definitive biography of John Douglas,
• Alfred Edward Housman (1859 – 936), A. E. Housman, English poet - A Shropshire Lad.
• Edward Howard (1624 – c. 1700) English dramatist and author of the Restoration era
• Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross (1653 - 1735)
• Mary Howitt
• William Horwood (born 1944), author of the Duncton Wood series
• Frieda Hughes
• Ted Hughes OM (1930-1998) English Poet and Children's writer. Poet Laureate
• John Ceiriog Hughes
• Mary Vivian Hughes
• "Ted" Hughes Edward James Hughes OM, (1930 – 1998), more commonly known as Ted Hughes, was an English poet and children's writer. Poet Laureate 1984
• Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, OBE (1900 - 1976)
• Thomas Hughes (1822 - 1896)
• William Holman Hunt
• Aldous Huxley (1884–1963)
• Jacquetta Hopkins (1910 - 1996) British archaeologist and writer.
• Rachel Hunter (author)
• Allegra Huston
• Catherine Hutton
• Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE (1923 - 2014)
• James Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire MP (c.1640 - 1669) dramatist
• Sir Robert Howard (1626 - 1698)
• Terence Wilmot Hutchison (1912 - 2007)
• Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
• Laurence Hyde, KG, PC, 1st Earl of Rochester (1641-1711)

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I

• Elizabeth Inchbald
• Jean Ingelow
• Richard Reid Ingrams (1937 - d.)
• Hammond Innes (1914–1998)
• Robert Lock Graham Irving (1877 - 1969)
• Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan) British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. His family moved to England in 1960 when he was five.
• Christopher Isherwood (1904–86)

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J

• Anna Jacobs
• William Wymark Jacobs (1863 - 1943)
• Frances Jacson
• Montague Rhodes James OM, MA (1862 – 1936), M. R. James, best remembered for his ghost stories,
• P. D. James (1920-2014)
• Peter George James Jenkins (1934 - 1992)
• Rosemary Hawley Jarman
• Gertrude Jekyll
• Ffion Jenkins
• Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (1920 - 2003)
• Elizabeth Jennings
• Geraldine Jewsbury
• Elizabeth Jocelin
• Aphra Johnson (1640 - 1689)
• Frank Robert Johnson (1943 - 2006)
• Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867 – 1902) English poet, essayist and critic
• Pamela Hansford Johnson
• Sabrina Johnson
• Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) a.k.a. Dr Johnson, English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
• Elizabeth Jolley
• Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (1572 – 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor
• Jenny Joseph
• Margaret Jourdain
• Mary Eliza Joy (1848 - 1898)
• Jerome K. Jerome
• David Jones CH (1895 – 1974) painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets.
• James Joyce

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K

• Henry Edward Kavanagh (1892 - 1958)
• Patrick J. Kavanagh
• Emily Sheila Kaye-Smith born on 4 February 1887 at Battle Lodge, 9 Dane Road, St Leonards. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Kaye-Smith, a local doctor. - writer
• Frances Kazan
• John Keats (1795-1821)
• Fanny Kemble
• Margery Kempe
• May Kendall
• Lena Kennedy
• Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy (1919 - 2009)
• Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy GCB (4 March 1838 – 9 October 1916) Royal Navy officer - writer
• Violet Augusta Mary Frederica Kennedy-Erskine (1863 - 1946)
• Harry Clément Ulrich Kessler (1868 – 1937) Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art. English translations of his diaries "Journey to the Abyss" (2011) and "Berlin in Lights" (1971) - grew up in France, England and Germany
• Violet Trefusis née Keppel (1894 - 1970)
• Anne Killigrew
• Dorothy Kilner
• Mary Ann Kilner
• Anthony Kimmins (1901 - 1964)
• Harriet King (poet)
• Phyllis King
• Magdalen King-Hall
• Rev. Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
• Henry Kingsley (1830 - 1876) English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley.
• Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862 - 1900)
• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children
• Miles Beresford Kington (1941 - 2008)
• John Henry Knight
• Edmund George Valpy Knox E.V.Knox (1881 – 1971), was a poet and satirist
• Reverend Monsignor Ronald Knox (1888 - 1957)
• The Rev Wilfred Lawrence Knox (1886 - 1950)
• Dorothy Koomson
• Stanley Kubrick (1928 – 1999) - not strictly British - American director, writer, producer, and photographer of films, who lived in England during most of the last 40 years of his career.

References and Sources

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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