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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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Douglas Jerrold (Douglas William Jerrold)

Douglas William Jerrold was a popular British dramatist and humourist.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1803 - 1857

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Alfred Crowquill

Alfred Crowquill is a pseudonym of Alfred Henry Forrester.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1804 - 1872

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Alfred Henry Forrester

Alfred Henry Forrester (10 September 1804 – 26 May 1872) was an English author, illustrator and artist, who was also known under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill.[1 Alfred Forrester was the son of Robert Forrester of 5 North Gate, Royal Exc... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1804 - 1872

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1804 - 1864

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Robert William Buss

Robert William Buss was a British artist and engraver.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1804 - 1874

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R. S. Surtees

Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1805 - 1864

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Samuel Palmer

Samuel Palmer was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1805 - 1881

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Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen, often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen, was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen’s populari... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1805 - 1875

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Daniel Maclise

Daniel Maclise was an historical painter and portraitist from Cork. His enormous frescoes of The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher at Waterloo and The Death of Nelson were two of the most successful works commissioned for the Houses of Parliament.... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1806 - 1870

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Frederick Debell Bennett (Esq., F.R.G.S.)

Shortly after qualifying as a doctor, Frederick Debell Bennett signed on for a three year's cruise in a South Sea whaler.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1806 - 1859

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Charles Lever

Charles James Lever was an Irish novelist. He was a born storyteller, and his novels were just like his conversation.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1806 - 1872

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Thomas Miller

Thomas Miller was an English poet and novelist who explored rural subjects. He produced over 45 volumes. 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:
Author

Lived:
1807 - 1874

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Born in Portland, Massachusetts, Longfellow studied at Bowdoin College and taught at Bowdoin and Harvard College. He was the most successful American poet of his day and wrote The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and The Village Blacksmith as well as a v... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1807 - 1882

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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery. He is particularly remembered for his book Snow-Bound.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1807 - 1892

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Jane Webb Loudon

Jane Wells Webb Loudon was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. She also created the first popular gardening manuals.

Type:
Author
Editor

Lived:
1807 - 1858

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Henry Cole (Sir Henry Cole)

A friend of Thomas Love Peacock and John Stuart Mill, Cole began his career as secretary to Francis Palgrave. Under the name of Felix Summerly he published children's books in The Home Treasury series.... View More

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1808 - 1882

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Felix Summerly (Sir Henry Cole)

Felix Summerly was a pseudonym of Sir Henry Cole, under which he wrote and published children's books in The Home Treasury series. He was the inventor of the Christmas card in 1843. He began his career as secretary to Francis Palgrave.... View More

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1808 - 1882

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Frederick William Naylor Bayley (F. W. N. Bayley)

Frederick William Naylor Bayley was an English miscellaneous writer. He was the first editor of the Illustrated London News. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, pleas... View More

Type:
Editor

Lived:
1808 - 1853

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Owen Jones

Owen Jones was a Welsh artist and a natural polymath. He was a well-known designer of the mid-nineteenth century, and had a huge impact on the appearance of consumer goods.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1808 - 1874

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F. W. Topham

Francis William Topham was an English watercolourist and engraver. 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:
Illustrator

Lived:
1808 - 1877

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