10 AWESOME ENGLISH NOVELISTS

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1. JANE AUSTEN (16 Dec, 1775 - 18 July 1817)
Well Known For -   Sense and Sensibility (1811)
                              Pride and Prejudice (1813)
                              Mansfield Park (1814)
                              Emma (1816)
                              Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1818)

2. CHARLES DICKENS (7 February, 1812 - 9 June 1870)
Well Known For -   The Pickwick Papers (1837)
                              Oliver Twist (1839)
                              Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
                              The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
                              The Chimes (1844)
                              The Cricket On The Hearth (1844)

3. VIRGINIA WOOLF (25 January, 1882 - 28 March 1941)
Well Known For -   The waves (1931)
                              To The Lighthouse (1927)
                              Mrs Dalloway (1925)

4. GEORGE ORWELL (25 June, 1903 - 21 January, 1950)
Well Known For -   Burmese Days (1934)
                              A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
                              Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1936)
                              Coming Up For Air (1939)
                              Animal Farm (1945)
                              Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

5. JOSEPH CONRAD (3 December, 1857 - 3 August, 1924)
Well Known For -   Heart Of Darkness (1899)
                              Lord Jim (1900)
                              Typhoon (1902)
                              Nostromo (1904)
                              The Secret Agent (1907)
                              Under Western Eyes (1911)

6. CHARLOTTE BRONTE (21 April, 1816 - 31 March, 1855)
Well Known For -   Jane Eyre (1847)
                              Shirley (1849)
                              Villette (1853)

7. CHINUA ACHEBE (16 November, 1930 - 21 March, 2013)
Well Known For -  Things Fall Apart (1958)
                              No Longer At Ease (1960)
                              Arrow Of God (1964)
                              A Man Of The People (1966)
                              Anthills Of The Savannah (1987)

8. AGATHA CHRISTIE (15 September, 1890 - 12 January, 1976)
Well Known For -   Hercule poirot
                              Miss Marple
                              Murder On The Orient Express
                              Death On The Nile
                              Partners In Crime
                              The Mousetrap

9. WILLIAM GOLDING (19 September, 1911 - 19 June, 1993)
Well Known For -   Lord Of The Flies (1954)
                              The Inheritors (1955)
                              Pincher Martin (1956)
                              Free Fall (1959)
                              The Spire (1964)
                              The Paper Men (1984)

10. J.K. ROWLING (31 July, 1965 - present)
Well Known For - Harry Potter Series


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