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Military and political leader

English educator and historian, headmaster of Rugby School

French privateer

Children's author, editor

English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry

American author

American letter writer and diarist

French diplomat, writer and scholar

English botanist and botanical illustrator

Urdu-Persian poet

British blasphemer

Portuguese poet, salon-holder, author and painter

French writer, politician, diplomat and historian

Italian poet, philosopher and writer

American politician

British writer

Wife of Lord Byron

German philosopher

Queen consort of Sweden and Norway

Irish poet, singer and songwriter

British dramatist and antiquarian

American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author

German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic

English essayist

English clergyman

French statesman

New Zealand politician

American writer

English novelist

French statesman

Polish poet

French naturalist and zoologist (1769-1832)

English poet and translator

Dutch writer

German duke

German Romantic author

Welsh Methodist preacher and hymn-writer

Russian writer

English author and novelist

Irish writer