English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 18711879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance , Weymouth Sands , and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels
English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament and civil servant
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
English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric
English writer and fellow of Oxford University, best known for his encyclopedic book The Anatomy of Melancholy
British author, historian and traveller
British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre
