British Writers: T - Z

This project is a place to gather together profiles of British born writers of all genres. Those with bold links have profiles on Geni. Links that are not bold are to other sources.

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T

• Robert Tannahill
• Catherine Tate
• Ann Taylor (poet)
• Jane Taylor (poet)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
• Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
• Edward Thomas (1878 – 1917) Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry, essayist, journalist, War Poet
• Elizabeth Thomas (poet/novelist)
• Helen Berenice Thomas born Noble (1877-1969) Wife of War Poet Edward Thomas and his Autobiographer
• Flora Thompson
• James Thomson (1700-48)
• Paul Thompson (1907-1984)
• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (1892 – 1973) was an English writer, poet born in South Africa
• Rosemary Tonks
• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• Carol Topolski
• Mary Tourtel (nee Caldwell) 1874-1948, creator, writer and illustrator of Rupert the Bear
• Sylvia Townsend-Warner
• Thomas Traherne (1636 or 1637–1674)
• Anna Trapnell
• P. L. Travers
• Iris Tree
• Viola Tree
• G M Trevelyan
• Sarah Trimmer
• Anthony Trollope (1815–82)
• Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810 - 1892)
• Lieutenant General Sir Francis Tuker KCIE CB DSO OBE
• William Tyndale, English Bible Translator (c.1492 - 1536)
• Violet Trefusis
• Rose Tremain
• Lieutenant General Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker KCIE CB DSO OBE (1894 – 11967) known for writing a number of books on military history, including The Pattern of War, While Memory Serves and The Yellow Scarf.
• Twiggy (born 1949) Lesley Lawson née Hornby English model, actress and singer. Autobiographer
• Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt, 14th Baron Berners (1883 - 1950) British composer of classical music, novelist, painter and aesthete.

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U

• Jenny Uglow
• Evelyn Underhill
• Florence Kate Upton
• Edward Upward (1903-2009)
• Alison Uttley born Alice Jane Taylor (1884- 1976)

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V

• Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
• Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)
• Margaret Veley
• Jules Verne (1828-1905)
• Frances Parthenope Verney
• Elizabeth Vesey
• Dorothy Vicary
• Salley Vickers
• Barbara Vine see Ruth Rendell
• Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1853-1922)

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W

• Rekha Waheed
• Daniel Wakefiled - Political writer
• Priscilla Wakefield
• Annie Louisa Walker
• Gregg Wallace (born 1964) Food writer, columnist Autobiographer
• Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679
• Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
• Julia Mary "Julie" Walters, CBE (born1950) English actress and writer. Novelist and Autobiographer
• Rev. Charles Slegg Ward (1840 - 1913)
• Mary Augusta Ward
• Rex Warner (1905–86)
• Sylvia Townsend Warner, (1893-1978) - Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman
• Rosamund Marriott Watson
• Alec Waugh (1898 - 1981
• Arthur Waugh (1866 - 1943)
• Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
• Camilla Way
• Anna Weamys
• Mary Webb
• Augusta Webster
• John Webster (c.1580 - c.1634)
• Sue Welfare
• Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington
• Anthony Wells (1914 - 1987)
• Jane West
• Rebecca West - Journalist and Novelist
• H G Wells (1866-1946)
• Charles Cuthbert Powell Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel CBE PC (born 1933), Peer, Cricketer - Biographer
• Dennis Yates Wheatley (1897 - 1977)
• Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, GCVO (1902 - 1975)
• Jacqueline Wheldon
• Marjorie Whitaker
• Dorothy White
• Florence White
• Maggy Whitehouse
• Kit Whitfield
• Sir Bulstrode Whitlocke, MP (1605 - 1675)
• Isabella Whitney
• Edward Whymper (1840 - 1911)
• Frederick Whymper (1838 - 1901)
• Anna Wickham
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• Henry William Williamson (1895-1977) creator of Tarka the Otter
• Sir Angus Wilson, KBE (1913 - 1991)
• Andrew Norman Wilson (born 1950) English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views.
• Harriette Wilson
• Sir Richard John McMoran Wilson, 2nd Baron Moran (1924 - 2014)
• T. P. Cameron Wilson (1886 - 1918)
• Claudia Winkleman
• Jacqueline Winspear
• John Strange Winter
• Jane Wiseman
• P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
• Humbert Wolfe, CB, CBE (1885 - 1940)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (Mary Godwin 1759-1797)
• Ellen Wood (author)
• Christopher Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, OBE (1917 - 2001)
• Margaret Louisa Woods
• Leonard Sidney Woolf (1880 - 1969)
• Virginia Woolf
• Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) English author, poet and diarist
• William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
• Jennifer Worth 25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011
• Lady Mary Wroth
• Sir George Wyatt, of Boxley Abbey (c.1550 - 1624)
• Petronella Wyatt 1968-
• Thomas Wyatt - Poet
• Woodrow Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford
• Rachel Wyatt 1929-
• Evie Wyld
• Andrew Wyntoun, known as Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 – c. 1425) was a Scottish poet, a canon and prior of Loch Leven on St Serf's Inch and later, a canon of St. Andrews.
• T H White

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XYZ

• Jane Yardley
• Ann Yearsley
• Margaret Yorke
• E. H. Young
• William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) Irish poet
• Edward Young (1683-1765)
• Israel Zangwill (1864 – 1926) British humorist and writer.
  

References and Sources

• Women's History Month - Wordpress
• WIKI - British Writers
• WIKI British Literature
• WIKI Writers
• Literature British Council - Writers
• The Guardian - Black British Writers
• Oxford Royale - Britains Famous Writers History

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