British Writers

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British writers
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William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare is Britains greatest playwright. He
  was born in Stratford-on-Avon. Shakespeare wrote
  at least 37 plays, although few were published in
  his lifetime.

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Jane Austen

• Jane Austen spent her short life in Hampshire,
  near the south coast of England. Her novels
  describe the everyday life of people in the
  middle upper-class circle, she knew best.

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Charles Dickens

• Charles Dickens was the most popular novelist in
  the 19th century in the English literature. His
  novels often tell the stories of young children
  who work hard to escape a life of poverty.

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Robert Burns

• Robert Burns, a well-known and popular Scottish
  poet, was born in 1759. At the age of 15 he began
  to write poems. He wrote about people and about
  everyday things.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

• Conan Doyle was one of the first to start the
  fashion of the detective stories. Conan Doyle
  created his famous character, Sherlock Holmes, in
  1885.

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Agatha Christie

• Agatha Christie is possibly the worlds most
  famous detective story writer. She wrote 79
  novels and several plays. Many of her novels and
  short stories have been filmed.

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John Ronald Tolkien

• The author of the famous book The Lord of Rings
  was born in 1892 in south Africa and grew up in a
  village near Birmingham.