Myers Literary Guide: The North-East

This version first published online 2004 with the Centre for Northern Studies. (c) Alan Myers 2004.
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NY survey of the North East heritage would be incomplete without its literary context. I have therefore decided to compile an A to Z of the many writers of the past who had a significant connection with the region. The rich and varied list includes a Roman emperor, King Arthur, Beowulf, a Pope, Jean-Paul Marat, pioneering feminists - and ten authors of classic children's tales, including the creators of Biggles, Alice and the Chalet School. Here also are Chaucer, Shakespeare, Byron, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Mrs Gaskell, Dickens, Forster and Conrad, Auden and Larkin, George Orwell, Spike Milligan, Wilson of the Wizard and J.R.R. Tolkien...

 

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Index of Authors

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 

A

William Edwin Adams
John Adamson
Aelred
Ruth Ainsworth
Mark Akenside
Alcuin
Kenneth Allott
Kingsley Amis
Aneirin
Martin Armstrong
Ralph Richard Armstrong
Tommy Armstrong
Arthurian Legend
Roger Ascham
Anthony Askew
Mary Astell
Wystan Hugh Auden
Richard Aungerville
Jane Austen
Charles Avison

B

Edmund Backhouse
Lord Baden-Powell
Clive Barker
Ambrose Barnes
Barnabe Barnes
Cadwallader Bates
Bede
Cuthbert Bede
Gertrude Bell
John Bell
Quentin Bell
Einar Benediktsson
Arnold Bennett
Beowulf
Sir Walter Besant
Thomas Bewick
John Blackburn
Robert Blakey
George Borrow
Bernard Bosanquet
James Boswell
Henry Bourne
Mary Bowes
Lilian Bowes-Lyon
John Braine
John Brand
Angela Brazil
Elinor Brent-Dyer
John Trotter Brockett
Joseph Brodsky
Charlotte Bronte
John Brown
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
John Collingwood Bruce
Michael Bryan
John Buchan
Basil Bunting
Thomas Burnet
Robert Burns
Joseph Butler
Josephine Butler
Lord Byron

C

Caedmon
William Camden
Lady Mary Carey
Henry Carr
John Carr
Lewis Carroll
James Catnach
Winifred Cawley
Sid Chaplin
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Edward Chicken
Hewson Clarke
John Cleveland
William Cobbett
Thomas Cobden-Sanderson
Catharine Cockburn
Samuel Coleridge
G.D.H. Cole
Wilkie Collins
Jack Common
Joseph Conrad
Ann Cook
Ida Cook
Catherine Cookson
William Corlett
William Cowper
Joseph Crawhall
Mandell Creighton
Freeman Wills Crofts
Archibald Joseph Cronin
William Percival Crozier
John Cunningham
Cursor Mundi
Cynewulf

D

Lord Dacre of Glanton
Dalziel Brothers
Julia Darling
Sarah Emily Davies
Richard Dawes
Daniel Defoe
Vigo Auguste Demant
Michael Denham
Joseph Dent
Thomas Dibdin
Charles Dickens
Benjamin Disraeli
Richard Watson Dixon
Thomas Dixon
Dobson's Drie Bobbes
Madeleine Hope Dodds
Marcus Dods
Domesday Book
Thomas Doubleday
Michael Drayton
Louis Dutens

E

Charlotte Anne Eaton
Eca de Queiros
Eddius
Elizabeth Elstob
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Erickson
Ralph Erskine

F

George Stanley Faber
John Meade Falkner
Gabriel Fielding
Celia Fiennes
Winifred Finlay
Ann Fisher
Ford Madox Ford
Edwin Morgan Forster
John Forster
George Fox

G

David Garnett
Samuel Garth
Elizabeth Gaskell
'Gawain & the Green Knight'
Thomas Gibson
Wilfrid Gibson
Penelope Gilliatt
Godric
Oliver Goldsmith
Jane Gomeldon
Sir Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray
Dora Greenwell
Richard Grey
Frederick Grice
Edward Grierson
Jane Grigson
Ivor Gurney

H

Tom Hadaway
Hadrian
John Hall
Ian Hamilton
Thomas Hardy
John Hardyng
Augustus Hare
Jane Harvey
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ian Hay
William Hazlitt
Lafcadio Hearn
Robert Hegge
Mary Heron
James Herriot
Harold Heslop
Lorna Hill
Thomas Hodgkin
John Hodgson
Ralph Hodgson
Thomas Jefferson Hogg
Sir Henry Holland
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ernest William Hornung
Frances Horovitz
John Horsley
Hugh of Newcastle
Leigh Hunt
Violet Hunt
William Hutchinson
Aldous Huxley
C.J. Cutcliffe-Hyne

J

Thomas Jackson
Mason Jackson
Naomi Jacob
Margaret (Storm) Jameson
Cyril Joad
John de Tinmouth
William Earl Johns
Samuel Johnson
Ben Jonson

K

Sheila Kaye-Smith
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Kirkup
Edward Knott
John Knox

L

Ebenezer Landells
Philip Larkin
Lawrence of Durham
Edward Lear
Laurie Lee
Rosamond Lehmann
John Leland
Clive Staples Lewis
Percy Wyndham Lewis
Francois Tristan L'Hermite
Henry George Liddell
John Lilburne
John Lingard
Joan Littlewood
John Thomas Looney
James Losh

M

Thomas Babington Macaulay
Compton Mackenzie
Eneas Mackenzie
Barry MacSweeney
John Malverne
Baron Avro Manhattan
Thomas Walter Manson
Jean-Paul Marat
Martin of Alnwick
John Martin
Harriet Martineau
Gavin Maxwell
Esther McCracken
James Melville
Henry Seton Merriman
Wilfrid Meynell
Edward Miller
Spike Milligan
Laurence Minot
James Mitchell
John Mitford
Elizabeth Montagu
William Morris
Robert Morrison
John Bingham Morton
Thomas Morton
James Murray
Mystery Plays

O

Nikolai Ogaryov
Anne Ogle
George Orwell
John Osborne
Robert Owen
Mary Oxley

P

William Paley
Joseph Parker
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Robert Patten
The People's Theatre
Samuel Pepys
Thomas Percy
William Percy
Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini
Richard Poore
Anna Maria Porter
Jane Porter
Anthony Powell
John Boynton Priestley
Allan Prior

R

James Raine
Kathleen Raine
Arthur Ransome
Joseph Reed
Reginald of Durham
Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid
Ernest Rhys
Richard of Hexham
Joseph Richardson
Joseph Ritson
Michael Roberts
Joseph Robson
George Ernest Rochester
Diana Ross
Christina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
John Rushworth
John Ruskin
William Clark Russell
Thomas Rymer

 

S

Francis Scarfe
Sir Walter Scott
William Bell Scott
Owen Seaman
Anya Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton
William Shakespeare
Sir Cuthbert Sharp
Granville Sharp
George Bernard Shaw
Matthew Phipps Shiel
Nerina Shute
Nevil Shute
Jon Silkin
Simeon of Durham
Siward
Joseph Skipsey
Christopher Smart
Samuel Smiles
Tobias Smollett
Richard Southern
Robert Southey
Nancy Spain
Sarah Francis Spedding
Joseph Spence
Thomas Spence
Christina Stead
William Thomas Stead
John Steinbeck
Joseph Stevenson
William Stobbs
Percival Stockdale
George Frederick Stout
Julia Cecilia Stretton
William Stukely
Robert Surtees
Robert Smith Surtees
Rosemary Sutcliff
Thomas Sutton
Algernon Swinburne

T

Cecil Philip Taylor
Sir Henry Taylor
John Taylor
Tom Taylor
William Thackeray
Robert Thomlinson
William Timlin
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Henry Treece
George Macaulay Trevelyan
George Otto Trevelyan
Turgot
Jane Turner
Philip Turner
William Turner
Mark Twain

U

John Udall

V

Sir John Vanbrugh
Jules Verne
Brougham Villiers

W

Alfred Wainwright
Graham Wallas
Hugh Walpole
Brian Walton
Colin Watson
Robert Spence Watson
Winifred Watson
Beatrice Webb
Veronica Wedgwood
John Weightman
Charles Wesley
John Wesley
Robert Westall
George Wheler
Ellen Wilkinson
Muriel Willa
Joe Wilson
John Mackay Wilson
Thomas Wilson
Wilson of the Wizard
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Dorothy Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
John Wycliffe

Y

Andrew Young
Arthur Young
Emily Hilda Young

Z

Yevgeni Zamyatin