British Writers: L - P

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L

• Lady Caroline Lamb
• Larry Lamb, English actor - Autobiographer
• Mary Lamb
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) English poet, novelist
• Perceval Landon (1868 - 1927)
• Margaret Lane, Countess of Huntingdon (1907 - 1994) writer
• Emilia Lanier (Bassano) (1569 - 1645)
• Angela Lansbury
• Joanna Laurens
• D H Lawrence (1885-1930)
• John Geoffrey Tristram Lawrence, 2nd Baron Oaksey, OBE (1929 - 2012)
• Thomas Edward Lawrence CB, DSO (1888 — 1935)
• Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 1960) English journalist, broadcaster, television personality, gourmet, and food writer.
• Peter Layard (1721-1802) English physician and midwife who contributed papers to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
• Mary Leapor
• Edward Lear
• Harriet Lee
• Sophia Lee
• James Lees-Milne (1908 - 1997)
• Rosamond Lehmann
• Mike Leigh, OBE (born 1943) English writer and director of film and theatre.
• Annie Lennox, OBE (born 1954), Scottish singer, songwriter, political activist and philanthropist
• Charlotte Lennox
• Doris Lessing
• Winifred Mary Letts
• Denise Levertov
• A. E. Levett
• Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL (1931 - 2000)
• Amy Levy (1861 – 1889) British essayist, poet, and novelist
• Clive Staples Lewis C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963), Author of the bestselling "The Chronicles of Narnia" and The Screwtape Letters.
• Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775 - 1818)
• Naomi Lewis
• Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812-1880) published "Progression by Antagonism" in 1846 and "Sketches of the History of Christian Art" in 1847.
• Very Revd Henry George Liddell (1811-1898)
• Sir David Lindsay
• Anne Lister (1791-1840) Yorkshire landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller.
• Sir Nicholas Lloyd
• Morgan Llwyd
• John Locke Essayist
• Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, KCMG (1887 - 1970)
• Robin Bruce Lockhart (born 1920) was a British author
• Hugh John Lofting (1886 – 1947) British author
• Edward Long (1734 - 1813)
• Frederick Lonsdale (1881 - 1954)
• Jane C. Loudon
• Ada Lovelace
• Richard Lovelace
• Malcolm Lowry
• Mina Loy (1882 - 1966)
• Jane Lumley
• Sylvia Lynd
• W. G. Lyttle (1844–1896)

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M

• Rose MaCaulay
• Mary (Molly) MacCarthy
• Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
• Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) Poet and Historian who wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces.
• George MacDonald
• Denis George Mackail (1892 – 1971) was an English novelist and short-story writer, publishing between the two world-wars.
• Ewen MacLachlan
• Sir FitzRoy Hew MacLean of Dunconnel, 1st Baronet (1911 - 1996)
• Charles Macklin (?1699-1797)
• Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE 1907 – 1963) Irish poet and playwright
• James Macpherson (1736 – 1796) Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems.
• Richard Holt Madeley (born 1956) British television presenter, columnist autobiographer and novelist.
• Julia Maitland
• Bathsua Makin
• Oriel Malet (1923 - 2014)
• Thomas Mallory
• Richmal Mangnall
• Delarivier Manley
• Mary E. Mann
• Ruth Manning-Sanders
• Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, DBE FRSL (born Thompson 1952), English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction.
• Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
• Robert Pipon Marett (Jersey)
• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
• Jean Marsh (1934 - d.)
• James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall, KCB, CBE, DSO, MC autobiography entitled ‘Wars and Rumours of Wars’ and wrote military history
• Florence Marryat (1833 - 1899)
• Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 – 1848) English Royal Navy officer, novelist; contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story.
• Elizabeth Marshall (Cook)
• Ellen Buckingham Mathews
• Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
• John Masefield (1878-1967) Poet and Author. Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967.
• William Somerset Maugham, CH (1874 - 1965)
• Daphne du Maurier
• Gavin Maxwell (1914 - 1969) Scottish naturalist and author
• John Mayne
• Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 21 June 1948) English novelist and screenwriter.
• Sorley McLean (1911 - 1996)
• H. C. McNeile
• Mary Meeke
• Louisa Anne Meredith
• George Métivier (1790–1881) (Guernsey)
• Charlotte Mew
• Alice Christina Gertrude Meynell nee Thompson (1847-1922) English poet, essayist
• Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (1891—J1975) was a British poet and publisher
• Viola Meynell (1885 - 1956)
• Wilfred Meynell
• Grace Mildmay
• John Everett Millais
• Henry Miller
• A A Milne
• Christopher Robin Milne
• Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (91809-1885) English poet, patron of literature and politician.
• John Milton (1608-74)
• Barbara Mitchel-Hill
• R. J. Mitchell (author)
• Diana Mitford, The Hon. Lady Mosley 1910 - 2003)
• Jessica Mitford (1917 - 1996)
• Mary Russell Mitford
• The Hon. Nancy Mitford (1904-1873)
• Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 11th Baronet (1919 - 1985)
• Geraldine Monk
• Nicholas Monsarrat (1910 - 1979)
• Basil Montagu (1770–1851) was a British jurist, barrister, writer and philanthropist.
• Elizabeth Montagu
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• Alexander Montgomerie
• Florence Montgomery
• Susanna Moodie
• Ron Moody (1924-2015) Actor, autobiographer
• Susan Moody
• Bel Mooney (b. 1946) English journalist and broadcaster.
• Olive Moore
• Hannah More
• Margaret More (1505 - 1544)
• Lolo Morganwg
• Sheridan Morley (1941 - 2007)
• Jan (James) Morris 1926
• William Morris
• Emily Mortimer Screenwriter
• Favell Lee Mortimer
• John Mortimer Screenwriter, dramatist
• Twm Morys (born 1961) is a Welsh poet and musician
• Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
• Arthur Murphy (1727-1805)
• Elisabeth Murray (1909 - 1998)
• Sir Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) Scholar and translator, essayist, novelist, playwright
• Anne Mustoe

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N

• Constance Naden
• Robert Morton Nance
• Violet Needham
• Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 1858 – 1924) was an English author and poet who published books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote The Railway Children. Also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later connected to the Labour Party.
• Frances Neville
• John Newbery
• Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols (1893 – 1944) English writer, war poet of WW1, playwright.
• Sir Harold Nicolson, KCVO MP (1886 - 1968)
• Adela Florence Nicolson
• David Niven born James David Graham Niven (1910 - 1983) Actor, novelist and Autobiographer
• Laura Noble
• James Ashcroft Noble (1844-1896) Journalist, essayist, hymnologist
• Sir Dudley North (1641 - 1691)
• Sir Thomas North (1535 - c.1604)
• Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808-1877) English poet, novelist
• Frances Norton, Lady Norton
• Mary Norton née Pearson (1903 – 1992), English author of children's books

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O

• Edna O'Brien (born 1930) Irish novelist, story writer, living in London
• Seán O'Casey (1880-1964)
• William Edgar "Bill" Oddie OBE (1941) English writer, composer, musician, comedian, artist, ornithologist, conservationist and television presenter.
• Edith Maude Olivier, Mayor of Wilton (1872 - 1948)
• Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier (1859 - 1943)
• Carola Oman
• Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (1865 – 1947) British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel.
• Julian Orde
• George Orwell - Born: Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 1950) - English writer who penned works such as Ninteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, and is considered one of the 20th Century's best narrators of English culture.
• Alice Oswald
• Ouida
• Daniel Owen (Welsh)
• Wilfred Edward Salta Owen MC (1893 – 1918) English poet and soldier (war Poet)
• Mary Oxlie

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P

• Mez Packer
• Ruth Padel
• Thomas Frank Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford writer.
• Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897) British critic and poet.. Professor of Poetry at Oxford and compiler of the Golden Treasury
• Michael Palin CBE FRGS
• Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, PC (1634–1705) English courtier, diplomat, and politician - also a noted Catholic writer.
• Christabel Pankhurst
• Alexander Park 1873-1814) - the brother of the famous explorer Mungo Park. Alexander Park was a Writer (lawyer) by profession and was appointed as Agent for Selkirk in 1810
• Emma Parker
• Harriet Parr
• Eliza Parsons
• George Paston
• Mrs Henry de la Pasture, CBE (1866 - 1945)
• Jill Paton-Walsh
• Lucy Peacock
• Mervyn Peake (1911–68)
• Winifred Peck (1882 - 1961)
• Ursula "Joan" Penton-Lock (1911 - 2007)
• Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
• Anne Perry (born 1938 as Juliet Marion Hulme) historical mystery writer
• Michael Henry Roland Pertwee (1916 - 1991) British playwright and screenwriter.
• Roland Pertwee (1885 - 1963) English playwright, film and television screenwriter, director and actor.
• Sarah Phelps
• Katherine Philips
• Eden Phillpotts (1862 - 1960)
• Joyce Irene Phipps Joyce Irene Grenfel (1910 - 1979)
• Ruth Picardie
• Sarah Piers
• Mary Pilkington
• Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008) Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Ruth Pitter
• Jocelyn Playfair
• Anne Plumptre
• Elizabeth Polack
• John William Polidori
• Elizabeth Polwheele
• Eve Pollard (born 1945)
• Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
• Eleanor Anne Porden
• Anna Maria Porter
• Jane Porter
• Marianne Postans
• Beatrix Potter
• Robert Baden-Powell
• Rhoda Power
• John Cowper Powys
• Philippa Powys
• Rhianna Pratchett (born 1976) is an English video game writer
• Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett
• Nancy Price
• J.B. Priestley, OM (1894 - 1984)
• Diana Primrose
• Matthew Prior (1664-1721) English Poet and diplomat
• May Probyn
• Adelaide Anne Procter
• Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is a British writer

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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