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Brontë, Emily

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was an English novelist and poet, the sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë. She lived a reclusive life in Yorkshire, drawing on the rugged landscape for her only novel, *Wuthering Heights*, a work of intense passion and structural innovation that challenged the conventions of her time.

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Carroll, Lewis

Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was an English writer, mathematician, and logician renowned for his facility with wordplay, fantasy, and logic.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was a leading figure of the Jazz Age, whose novels and stories chronicled the aspirations and disillusionments of the American Dream. His work, including *The Great Gatsby*, remains a cornerstone of 20th-century American literature.

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Melville, Herman

Melville, Herman wrote Moby Dick; Or, The Whale.

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Shakespeare, William

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet, widely regarded as the world's greatest dramatist. His extensive body of work, including tragedies, comedies, and histories, explores the complexities of the human condition with unparalleled linguistic mastery.

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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic masterpiece *Frankenstein* at the age of twenty. The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, she crafted a seminal work of science fiction that explores the perils of unchecked ambition and the necessity of empathy.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist whose exploration of the darker corners of human nature produced one of the most enduring Gothic tales in English literature. Consumptive from youth, Stevenson traveled extensively in search of health, writing adventure stories, travel narratives, and fin-de-siècle horror from his homes in England, France, and eventually Samoa, where he became known as Tusitala, the storyteller. Jekyll and Hyde emerged from a fever dream in 1886 and immediately captivated Victorian readers with its disturbing portrait of respectable society harboring monstrous secrets.

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Wilde, Oscar

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish playwright, poet, and novelist whose wit and aestheticism made him Victorian London's most celebrated—and eventually most scandalized—literary figure. His comedies of manners, including Lady Windermere's Fan and An Ideal Husband, skewered upper-class hypocrisy with epigrammatic brilliance. The Importance of Being Earnest, his dramatic masterpiece, opened in 1895; within months, Wilde's conviction for 'gross indecency' destroyed his career and exiled him to France, where he died at forty-six.

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