By: Merideth Miller

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Famous British Writers

The Writers:

Jane AustenBorn: 1775 in EnglandLived: most of her life

in her father’s Hampshire vicarage and then moved to Bath

Wrote: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and a short novella that was never finished.

William ShakespeareBorn: 1564 in Stratford-

Upon-AvonLived: in England,

worked mostly in LondonWrote:

Plays - the most famous are: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

154 Sonnets

Charles DickensBorn: 1812Lived: in EnglandWrote: David

Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Hard Times, The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby

William WordsworthBorn: 1770Lived: in EnglandWrote: mainly poetry,

including: “Intimations of Immortality”, “An Evening Walk”, “Upon Westminster Bridge”, and a collection of poems in Lyrical Ballads; also an essayist and critic

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