Alphabetically arranged entries offer cross-referenced information on British writers from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, including biographical information, overviews of their works, and critical analyses of some.

Alphabetically arranged entries offer cross-referenced information on British writers from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, including biographical information, overviews of their works, and critical analyses of some.

Alphabetically arranged entries offer cross-referenced information on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, including biographical information, overviews of their works, and critical analyses of some.

Alphabetically arranged entries offer cross-referenced information on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, including biographical information, overviews of their works, and critical analyses of some.

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