19th-century british short story writers

H. G. Wells

English writer

Anthony Trollope

English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction

Rudyard Kipling

English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist

James Hogg

Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English

Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet

Elizabeth Gaskell

English novelist, biographer and short story writer

Charles Dickens

English writer and social critic

Wilkie Collins

English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White , and for The Moonstone , which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel