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Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in the Victorian era.
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Walter Scott
Malachi Malagrowther was a pseudonym used by Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) in a series of letters written to the Edinburgh Weekly News in 1826, successfully defending the right of the Scottish banks to issue banknotes with a face value of less than...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English pronunciation: /ˈkoʊlrɪdʒ/) (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in...
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Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe (9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author, a pioneer of the gothic novel. It was her technique of the explained supernatural, in which every seemingly supernatural intrusion is eventually traced back to natural causes, and...
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg (help·info) (born Emanuel Swedberg; January 29, 1688–March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic, and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of fifty-six he...
