Geoffrey Chaucer
English poet and author
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard
English explorer of Antarctica
G. K. Chesterton
English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic
Agatha Christie
English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
Winston Churchill
British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Best known for his wartime leadership as Prime Minister, Churchill was also a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history
Lewis Carroll
English writer of children’s fiction, notably Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass
S. J. Simon
British journalist, fiction writer and bridge player
Fernand Braudel
French historian and a leader of the Annales School
Charlotte Bronte
English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bront sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature
Emily Bronte
English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature