British Writers: Q - S

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Q

• Rev. Robert Hebert Quick (1831 - 1891) English educator and writer on education
• Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)

R

• Ann Radcliffe
• Dollie Radford
• Elizabeth Raffald
• Kathleen Raine
• Dachine Rainer
• Helen Rappaport
• Hannah Mary Rathbone
• Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson, Baron of Ewell (1919-2006)
• Claire Berenice Rayner OBE née Chetwynd; (1931 – 2010) English nurse, journalist, broadcaster and novelist, best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt.
• Miss Read
• Herbert Edward Read Sir Herbert Edward Read], DSO, MC (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet and literary critic
• Amber Pember Reeves (1887 - 1981)
• Clara Reeve
• Mary Renault
• Ruth Rendell
• Frances (Fanny) Reynolds (1729 - 1807)
• Keith Richards (born 1943) Lyricist, autobiographer
• Dorothy Miller Richardson (1873 – 1957) British author and journalist.
• Anne Ridler
• Denise Riley
• Mary Robinson (poet)
• Regina Maria Roche
• Margaret Roper
• Isaac Rosenberg (1890 – 1918) English poet of the WW1.
• Christina Rossetti
• Sheila Rowbotham
• Elizabeth Rowe
• J. K. Rowling
• Lucinda Roy
• Gillian Rubinstein
• Berta Ruck
• Rosie Rushton
• Allan Ramsay
• Thomas Randolph (1605 – 1635): English poet and dramatist,
• Sir Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
• Ivor Armstrong Richards (1893 - 1979)
• Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
• Peter Robinson crime writer, author of Inspector Alan Banks mysteries
• Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) Poet
• William Roper, MP, of Well Hall (c.1495 - 1578)
• William Roscoe (1753 – 1831), English historian and miscellaneous writer
• Isaac Rosenberg (1890 – 1918) English poet considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets.
• Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882)
• Alan John Ross (1922 - 2001)
• Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1715.
• John Ruskin (1734-1780)
• Edward Rushton (1756–1814) was a British poet, writer

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S

• Patricia St. John
• Lady Margaret Sackville
• Vita Sackville-West
• Jilly Sallitt Jilly Cooper OBE (born 1937) English author.
• Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613-1703) French born essayist and literary critic, died in London
• Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 – 1967) was an English poet, author and soldier
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 – 1957)
• Roslyn Schwartz
• Jane Scott (theatre manager)
• Mary Scott (poet)
• Reginald Scott, MP (c.1538 - 1599)
• Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, RN (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: Diarist
• Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
• E. J. Scovell
• Mary Seacole
• Robert Sempill (c.1595–1665)
• Ernest Thompson Seton (1860 - 1946)
• Anna Seward
• Anna Sewell (30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) author of Black Beauty
• Lady Jane Seymour
• Lady Margaret Seymour
• Anthony Joshua Shaffer (1926 – 2001) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister, and advertising executive.
• Olivia Shakespear
• William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• Jo Shapcott
• George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
• William Hartley Hume Shawcross
• Mary Shelly (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) the author of Frankenstein
• Percy Shelley (1792-1822)
• Louisa Henrietta Sheridan
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Playwright and Poet
• Ariane Sherine
• Priscilla Sheringham also de Brath (1656-1945)
• Mary Martha Sherwood
• Arabella Susanna Shore (1823 - 1901)
• Emily Shore (1819 - 1839)
• Louisa Catherine Shore (1824 - 1895)
• Fredegond Shove
• Nerina Shute
• Nevil Shute (1899-1960) Novelist Nevil Shute Norway was a British novelist and aeronautical engineer.
• Mary Sidney
• Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) a poet, courtier and soldier
• Marjorie Lynette Sigley
• Una Lucy Silberrad
• John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE (born 1944) English foreign correspondent and autobiographer.
• May Sinclair
• Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
• Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet (1892 - 1969)
• Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet (1897 - 1988)
• Barbara Skelton (1916 - 1996)
• Robert Jacob Alexander Baron Skidelsky FBA (born 25 April 1939)
• Zoë Skoulding
• Sir Adolphus Slade CB (1804 – 13 November 1877) was a British admiral has been described as "one of the best nineteenth-century writers on the Middle East", wrote a number of books
• Audrey Slaughter
• Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC
• Caroline Rosetta Small (1829–1908), better known by the pen name Mrs. Alexander Fraser was romance writer of Victorian era
• Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
• C. Fox Smith
• Charlotte Turner Smith
• Delia Smith, C.B.E. (Born 1941) Cookery writer
• Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (1896 – 1990) English novelist and playwright. - novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
• Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead (1936 - 1985)
• Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902 - 1945)
• Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (1907 - 1975)
• Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
• John Guthrie Smith - Scottish historian (1834 - 1894)
• Pamela Colman Smith (1878 – 1951), also nicknamed Pixie, was an artist, illustrator, and writer.
• Stevie Smith
• Tobias Smollett (1721-71)
• Laura Solon
• Sir Arthur Somervell (1863 - 1937)
• Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895 – 1915) was a British poet of World War I.
• William Ritchie Sorley (1855 – 1935) was a Scottish philosopher, father of Charles Hamilton, 1920 publication A History of British Philosophy to 1900
• Robert South (1634-1716) Theoligan and Poet
• Caroline Anne Southey
• Robert Southey (1774-1843)
• Ester Sowernam
• Dame Muriel Spark, DBE ( 1918 – 2006) Scottish novelist
• Rachel Speght
• Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 1599) English poet - Poet Laureate
• Robert Stapylton (c.1607-1669) Playwright
• Lillian Spender
• Stephen Harold Spender (1909–1995) English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work
• Edmund Spenser (1555-1599)
• Pauline Stainer
• Vera Stanley Alder
• Henry Edward John Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley (1827 - 1903)
• Mariana Starke
• Mary Steele Letter writer
• George Lowther Steer (1909 - 1944)
• Adrian Stephen (1883 - 1948)
• Barbara, Lady Stephen
• Sir Leslie Stephen (1832 - 1904)
• Laurence Sterne (1713-68)
• Rev. Charles Abbot Stevens
• Anne Stevenson
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
• Mary Stewart (novelist)
• A. M. W. Stirling
• Agnes Strickland
• Bram Stoker
• Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840 - 1929)
• Marie Stopes, D.Sc., Ph.D. (1880 - 1958)
• Anthony Storr (1920 - 2001)
• Francis Storr
• Canon Vernon Storr (1869 - 1940)
• Lady Louisa Stuart
• Sir John Suckling
• Robert Smith Sutrees (17 May 1805 – 16 March 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer.
• Rosemary Sutcliff
• Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, The Duchess of Sutherland (1867 - 1955)
• Tabitha Suzuma
• Steph Swainston
• Jonathan Swift (1667 – 11745) Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer - Gulliver's Travels
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (London, 5 April 1837 – London, 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Thomas Sydenham (1624 - 1689)
• Eric Sykes, CBE MP (1923 - 2012)
• Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes KCIE, CB, CMG (1867 - 1945)
• Victoria "Plum" Sykes (born1969) English-born fashion-writer, novelist and New York socialite.
• Arthur Symons
• Edmund John Millington Synge (1871 – 1909) Irish playwright, poet, prose writer
• Netta Syrett
• Mitzi Szereto

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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