18th Century

Act of Settlement (1701)

Copyright Act (1709)

Septennial Act (1716)

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)

Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)

Edward Young (1683-1765)

John Gay (1685-1732)

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

Thomas Bluett (ca. 1690-1749)

George Lillo (1691-1739)

Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756)

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)

James Thomson (1700-1748)

John Wesley (1703-1791)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

David Hume (1711-1776)

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

David Garrick (1717-1779)

Horace Walpole (1717-1797)

William Collins (1721-1759)

Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)

Adam Smith (1723-1790)

Thomas Percy (1728-1811)

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)

William Cowper (1731-1800)

George Coleman (1732-1794)

James Macpherson (1736-1796)

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

James Boswell (1740-1795)

Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

Thomas Chatterton (1752-1800)

Frances (Fanny) Burney (1752-1840)

George Crabbe (1754-1832)

William Godwin (1756-1836)

William Blake (1757-1827)

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)