Home›British and Irish Literature›Nationality›United KingdomBrowse ByUnited KingdomNationality groups authors by the country each one came from. Wikipedia describes Jane Austen as "an English writer known primarily for her six novels," a nationality that placed her firmly within the English gentry society she wrote about. This dimension shows which countries produced the authors behind a given tradition.FactsUnited KingdomSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested750 1Primary Language or TraditionWell-attestedEnglish 1United KingdomFilter Results66 entriesGenreAllAdventure Fiction (2)Chronicle (1)Comedy (2)Crime Fiction (2)Dark Fantasy (1)Detective Fiction (1)Drama (9)Fantasy (1)Frame Tale Collection (1)Gothic Fiction (3)Horror Fiction (1)Lyric Poetry (2)Memoir (1)Nonfiction Prose (4)Philosophical Fiction (1)Poetry (12)Romance (1)Romance Novel (1)Satire (3)Science Fiction (2)Sermon (1)Short Fiction (4)Social Science Fiction (1)The Novel (28)Thriller (1)Tragedy (1)Tragicomedy (1)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (1)MovementAllAestheticism (1)Augustan Literature (1)Bloomsbury Group (1)Decadent Movement (1)Metaphysical Poetry (1)Modernism (1)Neoclassicism (1)Romanticism (3)Victorian Literature (1)Active EraAll1343 to 1400 (1)1478 to 1535 (1)1503 to 1542 (1)1553 to 1606 (1)1564 to 1616 (1)1572 to 1631 (1)1579 to 1625 (1)1608 to 1674 (1)1660 to 1731 (1)1688 to 1744 (1)1707 to 1754 (1)1713 to 1768 (1)1717 to 1797 (1)1770 to 1850 (1)1771 to 1832 (1)1772 to 1834 (1)1775 to 1817 (1)1795 to 1881 (1)1797 to 1851 (1)1811 to 1863 (1)1812 to 1870 (1)1816 to 1855 (1)1818 to 1848 (1)1819 to 1880 (1)1824 to 1889 (1)1834 to 1896 (1)1835 to 1902 (1)1847 to 1912 (1)1854 to 1900 (1)1854 to 1919 (1)1858 to 1924 (1)1859 to 1927 (1)1859 to 1930 (1)1863 to 1933 (1)1866 to 1946 (1)1874 to 1965 (1)1875 to 1950 (1)1882 to 1941 (1)1885 to 1930 (1)1890 to 1976 (1)1892 to 1973 (1)1893 to 1957 (1)1894 to 1963 (1)1895 to 1972 (1)1895 to 1985 (1)1903 to 1950 (1)1903 to 1966 (1)1907 to 1989 (1)1917 to 1993 (1)1920 to 2016 (1)1924 to 1966 (1)1937 to 2025 (1)1943 to 2013 (1)1952 to 2022 (1)Influenced ByAllPetrarch (1)Original LanguageAllEnglish (19)French (3)German (2)Irish (1)Italian (2)Latin (5)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 66A. A. MilneUnited KingdomAgatha ChristieUnited KingdomAldous HuxleyUnited KingdomAlexander McCall SmithUnited KingdomAlexander PopeUnited KingdomAnthony BurgessUnited KingdomAnthony HopeUnited KingdomArthur Conan DoyleUnited KingdomC. S. LewisUnited KingdomCandice Carty-WilliamsUnited KingdomCharles DickensUnited KingdomCharlotte BrontëUnited KingdomCressida CowellUnited KingdomD. H. LawrenceUnited KingdomDaniel DefoeUnited KingdomDaphne du MaurierUnited KingdomDavid PringleUnited KingdomDorothy L. SayersUnited KingdomE. NesbitUnited KingdomEmily BrontëUnited KingdomEvelyn WaughUnited KingdomGeoffrey ChaucerUnited KingdomGeorge du MaurierUnited KingdomGeorge EliotUnited KingdomGeorge GrossmithUnited KingdomGeorge OrwellUnited KingdomH. G. WellsUnited KingdomHenry FieldingUnited KingdomHilary MantelUnited KingdomHorace WalpoleUnited KingdomIan FlemingUnited KingdomIan McEwanUnited KingdomJ. R. R. TolkienUnited KingdomJames HerbertUnited KingdomJane AustenUnited KingdomJerome K. JeromeUnited KingdomJohn DonneUnited KingdomJohn FletcherUnited KingdomJohn LylyUnited KingdomJohn MiltonUnited KingdomKaliane BradleyUnited KingdomKazuo IshiguroUnited KingdomL. P. HartleyUnited KingdomLaurence SterneUnited KingdomLinda GrantUnited KingdomMary ShelleyUnited KingdomOscar WildeUnited KingdomPeter GeorgeUnited KingdomRafael SabatiniUnited KingdomRichard AdamsUnited KingdomRobert GravesUnited KingdomSamuel ButlerUnited KingdomSamuel Taylor ColeridgeUnited KingdomSir Thomas MoreUnited KingdomSir Thomas WyattUnited KingdomThomas CarlyleUnited KingdomThomas MaloryUnited KingdomTom StoppardUnited KingdomVirginia WoolfUnited KingdomW. Somerset MaughamUnited KingdomWalter ScottUnited KingdomWeedon GrossmithUnited KingdomWilkie CollinsUnited KingdomWilliam Makepeace ThackerayUnited KingdomWilliam ShakespeareUnited KingdomWilliam WordsworthUnited KingdomSources1. English Literature (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaEnglish literature, Beowulf composition dating sentenceQuote, English literature, Beowulf composition dating sentenceits composition is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.