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with literary connections with the West Midlands of England
The following is a full timeline of pages within this website providing information about people with literary connections with places within the West Midlands region of England. The listing is by dates of birth. Scroll down the list then click on the hyperlink on a name.
These links will take you to the appropriate point in the list of people below
1300-1600
1600s
1700s
1800-1850
1851-1899
1900-1950
1951-present
1331-1400 William Langland
1554-1628 Fulke Greville
1554-1586 Sir Philip Sidney
1563-1631 Michael Drayton
1564-1616 William Shakespeare
1574-1620 Richard Barnfield
1581-1613 Thomas Overbury
1593-1683 Izaak Walton
1612-1680Samuel Butler
1615-1691 Richard Baxter
1636-1674 Thomas Traherne
1640-1716 William Wycherley
1672-1719 Joseph Addison
1709-1784 Samuel Johnson
1714-1763 William Shenstone
1715-1781 Richard Jago
1723-1815 William Hutton
1731-1802 ErasmusDarwin
1731-1789 John Darwall
1738-1825 Mary Darwall
1747-1809 Anna Seward
1748-1789 Thomas Day
1756-1846 Catherine Hutton
1764-1848 Ann Julia Kemble Hatton
1775-1864 Walter Savage Landor
1775-1851 Mary Martha Sherwood
1775-1839 Charles Lloyd
1778-1830 William Hazlitt
1783-1826 Reginald Heber
1791-1874 Ann Marsh-Caldwell
1799-1874 John Moultrie
[birth date unknown, c.1800s] E. J. Burbury
[birth date unknown d.1895] Rosa Mackenzie
Kettle
1805-1882 William Harrison
Ainsworth
1806-1861 Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
1808-1867 Charles Rann Kennedy
1809-1882 Charles Darwin
1810-1865 Elizabeth Gaskell
1814-1887 Mrs. Henry Wood
1818-1887 W.S. Symonds
1819-1880 George Eliot
1825-1887 Emma Jane Worboise
1826-1887 Dinah Craik
1829-1885 Gerard Moultrie
1829-1925 Bessie Rayner Parkes
1830-1876 Henry Kingsley
1831-1884 Charles Stuart Calverley
1832-1911 Hesba Stretton
1833-1870 Adam Lindsay Gordon
1834-1903 J.H. Shorthouse
1834-1924 Sabine Baring-Gould
1835-1902 Samuel Butler
1836-1879 Frances Ridley
Havergal
1840-1920 Rhoda Broughton
1840-1879 Francis Kilvert
1841-1901 Robert Buchanan
1844-1869 George Heath
1847-1926 William Henry
Robinson
1847-1907 David Christie Murray
1851-1920 Mary Augusta Ward
1855-1924 Marie Corelli
1855-1928 Stanley Weyman
1857-1935 Catherine Milnes
Gaskell
1857-1903 Edna Lyall
1858-1889 Constance Naden
1859-1936 A.E. Housman
1859-1925 Mary Cholmondeley
1859-1927 Jerome K. Jerome
1860-1929 Ellen Thorneycroft
Fowler
1862-1920 Florence L. Barclay
1862-1938 Sir Henry Newbolt
1865-1959 Laurence Housman
1865-1944 Edith Henrietta Fowler
1867-1931 Arnold Bennett
1870-1953 Hilaire Belloc
1878-1967 John Masefield
1878-1952 Jeffrey Farnol
1879-1931 Desmond Coke
1880-1958 Alfred Noyes
1881-1975 P.G. Wodehouse
1881-1927 Mary Webb
1882-1937 John Drinkwater
1884-1954 Francis Brett Young
1885-1939 John Clayton
1885-1930 D.H. Lawrence
1886-1959 Sax Rohmer
1887-1915 Rupert Brooke
1888-1964 Frances Pitt
1892-1973 J.R.R. Tolkien
1892-1984 Ursula Bloom
1892-1933 Stella Benson
1893-1918 Wilfred Owen
1893-1970 Vera Brittain
1894-1969 Elinor Brent-Dyer
1895-1940 Simon Evans
1898-1971 E.M. Almedingen
1899-1976 Dorothy Charques
1901-1982 Malcolm Saville
1903-1966 Evelyn Waugh
1903-1969 John Wyndham
1905-1973 Henry Green
1905-1986 Rex Warner
1907-1977 Wilfred Byford-Jones
1907-1967 John Moore
1907-1973 W.H. Auden
1911-1995 Walter Allen
1911-1966 Henry Treece
1912-1998 Enoch Powell
1913-1980 Barbara Pym
1913-1995 Edith Pargeter
1913- Hidden, Norman
1914-1986 Henry Reed
1916-1993 Kenneth Bird
1917- Douglas V. Jones
1920- D.J. Enright
1921-1978 Edmund Crispin
1921 Bruce Montgomery [see Edmund
Crispin]
1922-1985 Philip Larkin
1922-1978 Gavin Gibbons
1925-1994 John Wain
1926-2001 Isobel Mary Lambot
1927- Charles Tomlinson
1929-1994 John Osborne
1930- Roy Fisher
1932- Geoffrey Hill
1933- Meg Hutchinson
1935- Rosemary Hawley Jarman
1935- David Lodge
1935- Guy N. Smith
1935-1996 Tom Wakefield
1940- Keith Miles
1942- Craig Thomas
1942- Bob Bibby
1942- Susan Hill
1943-2001 Lorna Sage
1946- Judith Cutler
1946- Jim Crace
1947- Michael Dibdin
1948- David Edgar
1948- Len Webster
1949- Alan Mahar
1952- Priscilla Masters
1952- Susan Davis
1953- Alan Brayne
1957- Joanna Toye
1958- Norman Samuda-Smith
1958- Simon Fletcher
1958- Benjamin Zephaniah
1961- Paul McDonald
1963- Meera Syal
1963- Roshan Doug
1973- Gul Y Davis
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updated 21 January 2003.
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