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Publishing History

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Subjects

Authors, english, Biography, English Authors, Authors, biography, Authors, English, History, English Novelists, History and criticism, Great britain, biography, Women authors, Correspondence, English literature, Poets, biography, English Poets, Intellectual life, Criticism and interpretation, Authorship, Homes and haunts, Authors, correspondence, Social life and customs

Places

Great Britain, England, London (England), London, United States, Italy, Ireland, Europe, France, English-speaking countries, Cornwall (England : County), China, Bloomsbury (London, England), Oxford, Oxford (England), India, Scotland, Spain, Yorkshire, Yorkshire (England)

People

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Charles Dickens (1812-1870), John Ruskin (1819-1900), Brontë family, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), George Orwell (1903-1950)

Times

20th century, 19th century, 18th century, Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century, 16th century, Middle English, 1100-1500, Victoria, 1837-1901, 21st century, 1918-1945

Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Rupert Croft-Cooke, 14 books
Virginia Woolf, 12 books
Vera Brittain, 12 books
Denys Val Baker, 12 books
George Orwell, 11 books
Christopher Isherwood, 11 books
Jeffrey Meyers, 11 books
Fanny Burney, 11 books
Jack Goldstein, 11 books
Samuel Johnson, 10 books
Peter Quennell, 9 books
Evelyn Waugh, 9 books
Jacqueline Wilson, 9 books
John Ruskin, 9 books
Norman Lewis, 9 books
Norman Page, 9 books
Robert Browning, 9 books
A. L. Rowse, 8 books
Victoria Glendinning, 8 books
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, 8 books
Sutherland, John, 8 books
Edward Blishen, 8 books
Hermione Lee, 8 books
Claire Tomalin, 8 books
Robert Graves, 7 books