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Here are the top 2,100 authors and 1,000 illustrators from the whole heritage of children’s literature. And also the top Editors, Translators, and Compilers.

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Anthony Whitehill (Anthony Reubens Montalba)

Anthony Whitehill was a Swedish-born British naturalized citizen who spent much of the latter part of his life in Venice. He was a painter and had four daughters who became successful artists. He sometimes worked under the alias of Anthony R. Montalb... View More

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Lived:
1812 - 1884

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Émile de La Bédollière

Émile de La Bédollière was a French journalist and writer.

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Author

Lived:
1812 - 1883

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John Forster

John Forster was an English biographer and critic. He was a friend of author Charles Dickens.

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Author

Lived:
1812 - 1876

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Thomas Egerton Wilks

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Lived:
1812 - 1854

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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Norwegian zoologist, forester and folklorist. He collaborated with Jorgen Engebretsen Moe to write the most comprehensive collection of Norwegian folk tales, Popular Tales from the Norse. The work was largely translated into English by George Webbe D... View More

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Lived:
1812 - 1885

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William Edmondstoune Aytoun

William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a Scottish lawyer, poet and academic. He is best-known for his humorous verse.

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Lived:
1813 - 1865

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Percival Leigh

Percival Leigh was a Scottish surgeon. But he soon gave that to make his living as a comic writer, and later as assistant editor of Punch magazine. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could... View More

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Author

Lived:
1813 - 1889

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Edward Henry Wehnert

Edward Henry Wehnert was an English-born painter. He is best remembered for his illustrations in books and magazines. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please conta... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1813 - 1868

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, “music dramas").

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Author

Lived:
1813 - 1883

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William Henry Giles Kingston (William H. G. Kingston)

William Henry Giles Kingston, often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys’ adventure novels.

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Author
Translator

Lived:
1814 - 1880

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J. C. Atkinson (John Christopher Atkinson)

John Christopher Atkinson was an English author, antiquary, and priest. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1814 - 1900

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Edward Caswall (Quiz)

Edward Caswall, CO, was an Anglican clergyman and hymn writer who converted to Roman Catholicism.  He was associated with Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman at the Birmingham Oratory of St. Philip Neri. 

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Author

Lived:
1814 - 1878

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Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels, and a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century.

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Author

Lived:
1814 - 1873

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Charles Reade

Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.

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Author

Lived:
1814 - 1884

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George Dalziel

George Dalziel and his brother Edward Dalziel were engravers. They founded a wood-engraving business in London. They worked with the leading artists of their day to produce important illustrations for the burgeoning magazine and book market of the pe... View More

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Author

Lived:
1815 - 1902

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Phiz

Phiz is the pseudonym of Hablot Knight Browne.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1815 - 1882

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Hablot K. Browne (H. K. Browne)

Hablot Knight Browne (12 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1815 - 1882

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Charles Boner

Charles Boner was an English travel writer, poet and translator. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

Type:
Translator

Lived:
1815 - 1870

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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Richard Henry Dana Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawye... View More

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Author

Lived:
1815 - 1882

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Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era.

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Author

Lived:
1815 - 1882

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