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Austen, Jane
1775-1817
Jane Austen was an English novelist, who spent her life in middle-class society,
which she described intimately and with ironical humour
in her novels, the most famous which are 'Sense and Sensibility',
'Mansfield Park','Emma', and 'Persuasion'.
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Bunyan, John
1628-88
English religious writer. who served in Cromwell's army as a boy.
He became a Baptist and preacher, for which he was imprisoned.
In jail he wrote his famous religious tract 'Pilgrim's progress'.
Other works are 'Life and Death of Mr. Badman' and 'The Holy War'.
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Burns, Robert
1759-96
Scottish poet, son of a farmer of Ayrshire. The success of the poems he wrote in the
Scottish dialect enabled him to move to Edinburgh, where he wrote some 300 lyrics, of
which the best known are 'Tam o'Shanter', 'The Cottar's Saturday Night', 'To a Mountain Daisy',
'Comin' thro the Rye' and 'Auld Lang Syne'.
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Defoe, Daniel
1660-1731
English novelist and journalist. After participating in a rebellion he fled
to Holland where he joined William of Orange. After his return to England in 1695
he wrote political pamphlets in support of the Whigs for which he was imprisoned.
He is best remembered for 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Moll Flanders' and 'A Journal of the Plague Year'.
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