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  Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

  • Author
  • Essayist
  • Poet
  • Politician
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  John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)

  • Author
  • M.D.
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  Thomas Augustine Arne (1710–1778)

  • Composer
• Mary Astell (1668–1731)

  • Author
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  Aphra Behn (1640–1689)

  • Author
  • Poet
  • Spy
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  Francis Atterbury (1662–1732)

  • Author
  • Politician
  • Bishop
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  Thomas Attwood (1765–1838)

  • Composer
  • Performer
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  Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)

  • Author
  • Editor
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  Jane Barker (1652–1732)

  • Author
  • Poet
  • Novelist
  • Translator
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  Sir Richard Blackmore (1654–1729)

  • Author
  • Physician
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  Martha Blount (1690–1763)
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  Sir John Blunt (1665–1733)

  • Financier
  • South Sea Director
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  William Boyce (1711–1779)

  • Composer
  • Performer
  • Music Editor
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  Richard Boyle (1694–1753)

  • Architect
  • Patron
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  Anne Bracegirdle (d. 1748)

  • Actress
  • Singer
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  John Braham (1774/77? – 1856)

  • Singer
• Isaac Brandon (1769–1847)

  • Merchant
  • Author
  • Librettist
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  John Broughton (1704? – 8 January 1789)

  • Pugilist
  • Waterman
  • Lighterman
  • Yeoman
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  Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

  • Statesman
  • Orator
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  Charles Burney (1726–1814)

  • Musician
  • Author
  • Historian of Music
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  Frances Burney (1752–1840)

  • Author
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  Thomas Cadell the elder (1742–1802; fl. 1765–1802)

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
• Elizabeth Calvert (d. 1674/5; fl. 1664–1675)

  • Bookseller
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  Duncan Campbell (1680?–1730)

  • Soothsayer
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  Elizabeth Cellier (fl. 1680–?)

  • Midwife
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  Susanna Centlivre (1667?–1723)

  • Author
  • Poet
  • Playwright
  • Actress
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  Charlotte Charke (1713–1760)

  • Actor
  • Author
  • Farmer
  • Tavern Keeper
  • Valet
  • Pastry Cook
  • Sausage Maker
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  William Rufus Chetwood (d. 1766)

  • Bookseller
  • Author
  • Theatre Manager
  • Theatre Prompter
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  Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700)

  • Sculptor
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  Colley Cibber (1671–1757)

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  • Actor
  • Theatre Manager
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  Susannah Maria Cibber (1714–1766)

  • Actress
  • Author
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  Theophilus Cibber (1703–1758)

  • Actor
  • Author
  • Theatre Manager
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  Maria Luisa Caterina Cosway (1760–1838)

  • Painter
  • Performer
  • Composer
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  Edmund Curll (1683–1747; fl. 1706–1747)

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
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  Chevalier d'Éon (1728–1810)

  • Diplomat
  • Spy
  • Soldier
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  Thomas Davies (1713?–1785)

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
  • Author
  • Actor
• Anne-Marie de Fauques de La Cépèdes de Vaucluse de Starck (1720–1804)

  • Author
  • Copyist
  • Translator
  • Tutor
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  Daniel Defoe (1660?–1731)

  • Author
  • Journalist
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  John Dennis (1657–1734)

  • Author
  • Critic
• James Dodsley (1724–1797)

  • Bookseller
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  Robert Dodsley (1704–1764)

  • Bookseller
  • Author
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  John Dryden (1631–1700)

  • Author
  • Poet Laureate
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  John Dunton (1659–1733)

  • Bookseller
  • Editor
  • Author
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  Arabella Fermor (1689?–1738)
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  Henry Fielding (1707–1754)

  • Author
  • Magistrate
• Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

  • Author
• Celia Fiennes (1662–1741)

  • Traveller
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  James Figg (d. 8 December 1734)

  • Master of the Noble Science of Defence
  • Victualler
  • Prize-fighter
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  Anne Finch (1661–1720)

  • Author
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  Ann Fisher (1719–1778)

  • Author
  • Grammarian
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  Sir Samuel Garth (1661–1719)

  • Author
  • Physician
  • M.D.
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  John Gay (1685–1732)

  • Author
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  George II King of Great Britain (1683–1760)

  • Monarch
  • King
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  Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

  • Author
  • Historian
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  George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)

  • Composer
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  Eliza Haywood (ca. 1695? – 1756)

  • Author
  • Poet
  • Actress
  • Translator
  • Editor
  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
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  John Henley (1692–1756)

  • Clergyman
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  John Hill (1714?–1775)

  • Apothecary
  • Botanist
  • Physician
  • Actor
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  James Hook (1746–1827)

  • Musician
  • Composer
  • Teacher
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  Theodore Edward Hook (b. 1788)

  • Author
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  Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821)

  • Author
  • Actress
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  Charles Benjamin Incledon (1763–1826)

  • Singer
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  James II and VII (1633–1701)

  • Monarch
  • King
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  Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

  • Author
  • Lexicographer
  • Editor
  • Critic
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  Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816)

  • Actress
  • Courtesan
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  Michael Kelly (1762–1826)

  • Singer
  • Composer
  • Administrator
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  Thomas Linley (1756–1778)

  • Composer
  • Performer
  • Author
• Bernard Lintot (1675–1736; fl. 1690–1736)

  • Stationer
  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
• Delariviere Manley (1670?–1724)

  • Author
• A. Moore (pseud.)

  • Pamphlet-seller
  • Publisher
• John Moore (d. 1737)

  • Apothecary
  • Author
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  Rosemond Mountain (1768?–1841)

  • Singer
  • Actress
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  Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

  • Author
  • Philosopher
  • Mathematician
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  Anne Oldfield (1683–1730)

  • Actress
• John Oldmixon (1673?–1742)

  • Historian
  • Author
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  Thomas Parnell (1679–1718)

  • Clergyman
  • Author
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  Elisabeth Pepys (1640–1669)
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  Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)

  • Naval Official
  • Member of Parliament
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  Katherine Philips (1631–1664)

  • Poet
  • Translator
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  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821)

  • Author
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  Mary Pix (1666–1720)

  • Author
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  Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

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  Edith Pope (1643–1733)
• Sarah Popping (d. 1728; fl. 1710–1723)

  • Printer
  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
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  Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

  • Author
  • Diplomat
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  Samuel Richardson (1689–1761; fl. 1719–1761)

  • Author
  • Printer
  • Publisher
  • Stationer
• Thomas Roseingrave (1690/91 – 1766)

  • Organist
  • Composer
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  Elizabeth Rowe (1674–1737)

  • Author
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  Margaret Caroline Rudd (1745?–1798?)

  • Courtesan
  • Author
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  Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780)

  • Musician
  • Author
  • Tobacconist & Grocer
  • Composer
• Elkanah Settle (1648–1724)

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  William Shield (1748–1829)

  • Composer
  • Performer
  • Music Theorist
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  Charlotte Smith (1749–1806)
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  John Christopher Smith (1712–1795)

  • Composer
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  Thomas Spence (1750–1814)

  • Teacher
  • Author
  • Bookseller
  • Radical
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  John Stanley (1712–1786)

  • Composer
  • Performer
  • Organist
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  Sir Richard Steele (1672–1729)

  • Author
  • Dramatist
  • Essayist
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  Anna Selina Storace (1765–1817)

  • Singer
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  Stephen Storace (1762–1796)

  • Composer
  • Performer
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  Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

  • Author
  • Dean
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  Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731)

  • Author
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  Mary Toft (1701?–1763)
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  Jacob Tonson the Younger (1682–1735; fl. 1700–1735)

  • Printer
  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
  • Book Binder
  • Stationer
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  Jacob Tonson the Elder (1655/6 – 1736; fl. 1678–1720)

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
• John Twyn (1619–1664)

  • Printer
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  Horace Walpole 4th Earl of Orford (1717–1797)

  • Author
  • Politician
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  Sir Robert Walpole 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745)

  • Politician
  • Prime Minister
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  Edward Ward (1667–1731)

  • Author
  • Publican
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  John Wilmot (1647–1680)

  • Author
  • Courtier
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  Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

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  William Woodfall (1745–1803; fl. 1771–1793)

  • Printer
  • Publisher
  • Reporter
  • Press Editor
  • Author
  • Editor
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  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)

  • Noblewoman
  • Author
  • Poet
  • Traveller