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People

with literary connections with the West Midlands of England

The following is a full list of pages within this website providing information about people with literary connections with places within the West Midlands region of England. Scroll down the list or use the A to Z index, then click on the hyperlink on a name.

These links will take you to the appropriate point in the list of people below

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Authors, poets,illustrators and others represented

A

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)
Allen, Walter (1911-1995)
Almedingen, E.M. (1898-1971)
Armstrong, David (1946-)
Auden, W.H. (1907-1973)
Audeley, John (15th century)

B

Bage, Robert (1730-1801)
Barclay, Florence L. (1862-1920)
Baring-Gould, Sabine (1834-1924)
Barnfield, Richard (1574-1620)
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691)
Bayly, Ada Ellen (1857-1903) [ see Edna Lyall ]
Belloc, Bessie Rayner (1829-1925) [ see Bessie Rayner Parkes ]
Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953)
Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931)
Benson, Stella (1892-1933)
Bibby, Bob (1942- )
Bird, Kenneth (1916-1993)
Bloom, Ursula (1892-1984)
Brayne, Alan (1953- )
Brazil, Angela (1868-1947)
Brent-Dyer, Elinor (1894-1969)
Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)
Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915)
Broughton, Rhoda (1840-1920)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841-1901)
Burbury, E.J. (birth date unknown, c. 1800s)
Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)
Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)
Byford-Jones, Wilfred (1907-1977)

C

Callow, Philip (1924-2007)
Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831-1884)
Chatwin, Bruce (1940-1989)
Charques, Dorothy (1899-1976)
Cholmondeley, Mary (1859-1925)
Clayton, John (1885-1939)
Clive, Caroline (1801-1873)
Coe, Jonathan (1961-)
Coke, Desmond (1879-1931)
Corelli, Marie (1855-1924)
Crace, Jim (1946- )
Craik, Dinah (1826-1887)
Crispin, Edmund (1921-1978)
Cutler, Judith (1946- )

D

Darwall, John (1731-1789)
Darwall, Mary (1738-1825)
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Davis, Gul Y (1973- )
Davis, Susan (1952- )
Day, Thomas (1748-1789)
Dibdin, Michael (1947- )
Done, Adrian (1932- )
Doug, Roshan (1963- )
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)
Drinkwater, John (1882-1937)

E

Edgar, David (1948- )
Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Enright, D.J. (1920-2002)
Evans, Simon (1895-1940)

F

G

Gaskell, Catherine Milnes (1857-1935)
Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865)
Gibbons, Gavin (1922-1978)
Gordon, Adam Lindsay (1833-1870)
Graham, Caroline (1931- )
Green, Henry (1905-1973)
Greville, Fulke (1554-1628)

H

Hatton, Ann Julia Kemble (1764-1848)
Havergal, Frances Ridley (1836-1879)
Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Heber, Reginald (1783-1826)
Heath, George (1844-1869)
Hidden, Norman (1913-2006)
Hill, Geoffrey (1932- )
Hill, Susan (1942- )
Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936)
Housman, Laurence (1865-1959)
Hutchinson, Meg (1933- )
Hutton, William (1723-1815)
Hutton, Catherine (1756-1846)

I

J

Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Jarman, Rosemary Hawley (1935- )
Jerome, Jerome K. (1859-1927)
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Jones, Douglas V (1917-)

K

L

Lambot, Isobel Mary (1926-2001)
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)
Langland, William (1331?-1400?)
Larkin, Philip Arthur (1922-1985)
Lawrence, D.H. (1885-1930)
Lloyd, Charles (1775-1839)
Lodge, David (1935- )
Long, Kate (1964- )
Lyall, Edna (1857-1903)

M

Mahar, Alan (1949- )
Marsh-Caldwell, Anne (1791-1874)
Marston, Edward [ see Keith Miles ]
Masefield, John (1878-1967)
Masters, Priscilla (1952- )
McDonald, Paul (1961-)
Miles, Keith (1940- )
Montgomery, Bruce (1921-1978) [ see Edmund Crispin ]
Moore, John (1907-1967)
Morrall, Clare (1952- )
Moultrie, Gerald (1829-1885)
Moultrie, John (1799-1874)
Murray, David Christie (1847-1907)

N

Naden, Constance Caroline Woodhill (1858-1889)
Newbolt, Henry (1862-1938)
Noyes, Alfred (1880-1958)

O

Osborne, John (1929-1994)
Overbury, Thomas (1581-1613)
Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918)

P

Pargeter, Edith (1913-1995)
Parkes, Bessie Rayner (1829-1925)
Peters, Ellis [ see Edith Pargeter ]
Pitt, Frances (1888-1964)
Porter, Sheena (1935- )
Powell, Enoch (1912-1998)
Pym, Barbara (1913-1980)

Q

U

V

W

Waddington-Feather, John (1933- )
Wain, John (1925-1994)
Wakefield, Tom (1935-1996)
Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)
Ward, Mary Augusta (1851-1920) [ Mrs. Humphry Ward ]
Warner, Rex (1905-1986)
Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966)
Webb, Mary (1881-1927)
Webster, Len (1948- )
Weyman, Stanley John (1855-1928)
Wodehouse, P.G. (1881-1975)
Wood, Mrs. Henry (1814-1887)
Worboise, Emma Jane (1825-1887)
Wycherley, William (1640-1716)
Wyndham, John (1903-1969)

X

Y

Young, Francis Brett (1884-1954)

Z

Zephaniah, Benjamin (1958- )

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