Literature
***TOO LONG*** JR Tolkien (1892–973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and in 1972 appointed a ...
***TOO LONG*** Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at in the 18th century. Austen's plots explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and ec...
***TOO LONG*** CSLewis (1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963) after wartime service when he was blown up at ...
***TOO LONG***Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer, an important modernist 20th-century author and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. During the inter-war period, Woolf was a vibrant part of London's literary and artistic society. Her best-known wor...
***TOO LONG***Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908–1964) was a British writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. The Bond stories rank among the best-selling series of fictional books of all time, having sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fl...
Contribution of Charlotte Brontë and "Jane Eyre" to British Heritage.
***TOO LONG***Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The brilliant Sherlock Holmes is one of the grea...
Contribution to British Heritage.
***This prompt may violate our content policy.*** Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses. He developed some of...
***TOO LONG***H.G. Wells (1866–1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, social commentaries, satire, biography and an autobiography. He is remembered for his futuristic novels and is known as the "father of science fiction". His most notable...
Contribution to British Heritage.
Aldous Huxley's Contribution to British Heritage.
Contribution of A. A. Milne to British Heritage.
***TOO LONG*** Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. The po...
Contribution of George Eliot to British Heritage.
***This prompt may violate our content policy.*** Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: 1857–1924) was a Polish-British writer and one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be reg...
***TOO LONG***Roald Dahl[a] (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.
Contribution of Graham Greene to British Heritage.
***TOO LONG***Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted t...
***TOO LONG***Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), t...
A Literary Legacy Enriching British Heritage.
A Literary Giant and his Enduring Legacy in British Heritage.
***TOO LONG***John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (/ˈbɜːrdʒəs/; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.
Contribution to British Heritage.
A Pillar of British Heritage.
Contribution to British Heritage.
A Pillar of British Heritage and the Chronicler of Class.
Contribution to British Heritage.
A Pivotal Figure in British Literary Heritage.
