 |
 Jane
Austen wrote her first novel at the
age of 14, but it was never sold to the general
public. Her best-known work, Pride and
Prejudice, was written between 1796 and
1797, but was not published until 1813. All of
the books published in her lifetime were
described as being written "By a Lady." |
 Robert Browning
wrote all of his best works after his marriage to
Elizabeth Barrett. The Ring and the Book,
based on a seventeenth-century Italian murder
trial, was his first work to receive wide
critical accalim. |
 John
Milton is best known for the
monumental works Paradise Lost, Paradise
Regained and Samson Agonistes, all
of which were written after he had become totally
blind. |
 Sir Walter Scott
was a lawyer-turned-author best known for writing
novels based on historical events, including Ivanhoe
and The Talisman. |
 Robert Louis
Stevenson spent much of his life
traveling around Europe and the South Seas, and
those travels became the basis for many of his
stories. He is best known today for the novels Treasure
Island and The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. |
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