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| 127994599 | Samuel Pepys | famous for his diary, secretary of admiralty in navy, falsely accused of treason and released by Charles II | |
| 127994600 | Alexander Pope | TB of the spine, catholic, writing as sole career, the wasp of twickenham, scriblerus club (satire) | |
| 127994601 | Joseph Addison | oxford, whig, secretary of state, published the spectator, wanted to bring philosophy into coffeehouses and improve the manners and morals of his audience | |
| 127994602 | Richard Steele | published the Spectator | |
| 127994603 | Mary Astell | women are products of their environment, Some Reflections Upon Women | |
| 127994604 | Lord Chesterfield | philip stanhope; ignored by father and raised by grandmother; statesman, diplomat, secretary of state; patron of the arts; friends with swift, pope, voltaire; wrote letters to son/godson for 30 years | |
| 127994605 | Lady Mary Wortly Montagu | first work was an essay in the spectator, educated herself, eloped with the ambassador of turkey, wrote letters describing turkish culture while in Constantinople | |
| 127994606 | Daniel DeFoe | robinson crusoe, mol flanders, stranded on island, merchant who went bankrupt, wrote political pamphlets and sent to prison, ended up in pillary but people threw flowers at him and drank to his health, presbyterian | |
| 127994607 | Jonathon Swift | greatest satirist in english language, born in dublin, anglican priest, political writer for whigs (anonymous), the tattler, fled to ireland when whigs came to power, dean of St. Patrick's cathedral, Richard Sympson, built mental hospital | |
| 127994608 | Mary Wollstonecraft | questioned attitudes about women, alcoholic father, translator for journal, in france during the revolution, had mary shelley then died of infection | |
| 127994609 | Samuel Johnson | scrofula, taught and translated books, walked to london, wrote dictionary, conversationalist, critical biographer, started the Rambler and the Idler, mr. sober, sent to debtors prison but given pension | |
| 127994610 | James Boswell | stalker of Samuel Johnson, born in scotland but loved london, studied law, married and had family, listened to other people and recorded what they said | |
| 127994611 | Thomas Gray | transition between age of reason and romanticism, melancholy, loved nature, didn't care about society and politics, Eton college, friends with horace walpole, declined to be poet laureate, professor at Cambridge | |
| 127994612 | Fanny Burney | d'Arblay, avid reader, wrote from the time she was 10, influenced Jane Austen, Evelina was the foreunner of the novel of manners, fled because of french revolution, Cecilia gave Austen the idea for pride and prejudice, published her father's memoirs | |
| 127994613 | Elizabeth Vigee- Lebrun | self taught portrait painter, 13 when father died and had to support family, 24 when she did her first portrait of marie antoinette, 800 paintings, observer of human nature |
