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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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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Author

Lived:
1809 - 1865

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Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.

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Author

Lived:
1809 - 1852

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Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of ... View More

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Author

Lived:
1809 - 1849

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Mark Lemon

Mark Lemon was a British playwright, author and the founding editor of Punch.

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Author
Editor

Lived:
1809 - 1870

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Alfred Tennyson (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign. He remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Author

Lived:
1809 - 1892

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a physician. But he is most famous as a writer. He is one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.

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Author

Lived:
1809 - 1894

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By the author of (Mrs. Gaskell)

Prior to publishing The Life of Charlotte Bronte in 1857, the books of Mrs. Gaskell were attributed to “Unsigned,” or to “By the author of.”

Type:
Author

Lived:
1810 - 1865

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Unsigned (Mrs. Gaskell)

Prior to publishing The Life of Charlotte Bronte in 1857, the books of Mrs. Gaskell were attributed to “Unsigned,” or to “By the author of.”

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Author

Lived:
1810 - 1865

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Mrs. Gaskell (E .C. Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell)

Mrs. Gaskell (September 29, 1810 – November 12, 1865) was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of inter... View More

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Author

Lived:
1810 - 1865

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.

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Author
Illustrator
Editor

Lived:
1811 - 1863

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Charles West Cope (C. W. Cope)

Charles West Cope was a British artist and illustrator. He painted several frescoes for the New Palace of Westminster.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1811 - 1890

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Gilbert Abbott à Beckett

Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was an English humorist and journalist. He was one of the original staff of Punch.

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Author
Editor

Lived:
1811 - 1856

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. She is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).

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Author

Lived:
1811 - 1896

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Anthony R. Montalba (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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Author
Editor
Translator
Compiler

Lived:
1812 - 1884

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Mrs. H. B. Paull (Susannah Mary Paull)

Susannah Mary Paull was a translator of children’s books. She was also known as Mrs. Henry H. B. Paull (Henry Hugh Beams Paull). We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If... View More

Type:
Translator

Lived:
1812 - 1888

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Edward Lear

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author and poet. He is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: As a dra... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1812 - 1888

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

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Author

Lived:
1812 - 1889

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoy... View More

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Author

Lived:
1812 - 1870

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W. J. Linton

William James Linton was a ninteenth century wood engraver and author.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1812 - 1897

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Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber)

Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest was an English aristocrat. She was an expert in seven languages. She was the first to translate the Red Book of Hergest into English.

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Author
Translator
Compiler

Lived:
1812 - 1895

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