Curated category
English literary critics
- Virginia WoolfAdeline Virginia Woolf entered the world on the 25th of January 1882 within a grand house in South Kensington, London. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, a…
- Ben JonsonBenjamin Jonson was born in June 1572, possibly on the 11th day of that month. His father died a single month before his birth after losing property and…
- Samuel JohnsonOn the 18th of September 1709, a baby named Samuel Johnson did not cry when he was born in Lichfield. His mother Sarah had been forty years old during the…
- Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was born on the 21st of October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, a small town in Devon. His father served as the vicar of the local church and…
- W. H. AudenWystan Hugh Auden was born at 54 Bootham in York, England, on the 21st of February 1907. His father George Augustus Auden worked as a physician while his…
- James Wood (critic)James Douglas Graham Wood was born on the 1st of November 1965 in Durham, England. His father Dennis William Wood worked as a minister and professor of…
- A. C. BradleyAndrew Cecil Bradley entered the world on the 26th of March 1851 at Park Hill in Clapham. This location sat within Surrey before becoming part of London.
- John DrydenJohn Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire. His father Erasmus Dryden belonged to a landowning gentry family…
- Hilary MantelHilary Mary Thompson was born on the 6th of July 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire. She grew up as a Roman Catholic in the mill village of Hadfield.
- G. Wilson KnightGeorge Richard Wilson Knight was born in 1897 and educated at Dean Close School before attending Dulwich College. He served as a dispatch rider during World…