Madame Bovary - Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert ( December 12, 1821 Croisset, May 8, 1880) is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He was born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, in the Haute-Normandie Region of France. Note: the French pronunciation of his name is roughly goo-STAHVE fl
The Professor - Charlotte BrontėCharlotte Bront ( April 21, 1816 March 31, 1855) was an English writer. Bronte was born at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, the eldest surviving daughter of a clergyman, Patrick Bronte (who had changed his surname from Brunty or Prunty) and his wife, Mari
The Romany Rye - George BorrowGeorge Henry Borrow ( 1803- 1881) was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his own experiences around Europe. Over the course of his wanderings, he developed a close affinity with the Gypsy nomads of Europe, and they figure prominen
To Be or Not to Be - Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen ( April 2 1805 August 4 1875) was a Danish author and poet famous for his fairy tales. Upbringing Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, on the April 2 1805. He was the son of a sickly young shoemaker of twenty-two and his several y
Tom Brown's SchooldaysTom Brown's Schooldays first published in 1857, is a novel by Thomas Hughes, set at a public school, Rugby School for Boys, in the 1830s when Hughes himself had been a student there. The novel was originally published as being 'by an Old Boy of Rugby', an - Thomas HughesFor the recipient of the Victoria Cross see Thomas Hughes, VC Thomas Hughes ( October 20, 1822 March 22, 1896) was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel, Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobigraphical work set at Rugby Scho
The Two Aristocracies - Catherine GoreCatherine Gore (1799 1861) was a British novelist and dramatist. She is amongst the well-known of the silver fork writers authors of the Victorian age depicting the gentility and etiquette of high society. Gore was born in London and raised in East Retfor
