Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer.

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the most important Victorian poets.

Thomas Carlyle: (1795-1881) Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.

George Eliot: (1819-1880) Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.

Giambattista Vico: (1668-1744)  Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist. A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is titled "Principles/Origins of New Science about the Common Nature of Nations"

Lord Leighton: (1830-1896) English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. Leighton was bearer of the shortest-lived peerage in history; after only one day his hereditary peerage became extinct.

Edward Gibbon: (1737-1794) English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open denigration of organised religion.

Venerable Bede: he was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth.He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The Father of English History".

Christina Rossetti: (1830-1894) English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.