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Authors Flashcards

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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1809
The poet
Failed actor

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Robert Browning

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1812
Prospice
Married Elizabeth Barrett

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Lewis Carroll

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1835
Alice in wonderland
His real name is Charles dodgeson

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Rudyard Kipling

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1865
The jungle book
Born in India

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James Joyce

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1882
Aradey
Oldest of 10 kids

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Virginia Woolf

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1882
To the Light house
Feminist

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JK Rowlings

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1965
Harry Potter
Same birthday as Harry Potter

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George Orwell

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1903
Animal Farm
He was a teacher

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George Bernard Shaw

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1856
Pygmalion
Won a Nobel prize

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Beatrice Potter

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1866
The tale of Peter Rabbit
The story is Based on a childhood pet

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Jane Austin

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1955
Emma
Never married

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John Wycliffe

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1324
The Last age of the church
Doctor of theology

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William Tyndale

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1495
Coverdale bible
He translated the bible into English

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John Foxe

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1517
Foxes book of martyrs
He fled England

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William Shakespeare

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1564
Hamlet
He married to Anne Hathaway at age 18

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John Milton

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1608
Paradise lost
He knew 10 languages

17
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John Bunyan

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1628
The pilgrims progress
Spent a lot of time in prison

18
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Daniel Defoe

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1660
Robinson cursoe
He was a spy

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HG Wells

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1866
War of the worlds
Radio broadcast, nationwide panic

20
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Bede

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673
Eccelestian history
Monk

21
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Jonathon swift

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1667
Gulliver’s travels
Invented the name Vanessa

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John and Charles Wesley

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1703, 1707
Hymns and secret poems
Wrote over 6,000 hymns

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Lord Byron

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1788
She walks in beauty
He squandered his fortune

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Charles dickens

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1812
Great expectations
Left school to work in a factory

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