Coming of age during the Napoleonic wars, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans was regarded as a sort of prodigy, though her first published volume, Poems, by Felicia Dorothea Browne (1808), did not meet with critical approval. She eventually became well-known for her patriotic, religious, sentimental, and historical poetry, song lyrics, and translations, eventually attaining popularity with the reading public as well as critical acclaim.

Born in Emesa in Syria, author Heliodorus wrote The Æthiopica or Theagenes and Charicleia in the third or fourth century CE. He became Bishop of Tricca or Trieca in Thessaly.

Greek mythology attributes the cause of the Trojan War to Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda, who though married to Menelaus, King of Sparta, ran away with Paris, the young, handsome Prince of Troy.

A Trojan prince at the time of the fall of Troy, from Greek mythology and the poetry of Homer.

Sir Arthur Hesilrige, 7th Baronet, d. 1763 (Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage) presided over the demise of Noseley Hall, the family seat. The story of Hesilrige and his wife Hannah was one of several suggested as the original for Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740-1).

Among the better-known productions of the almost inexhaustible actor and writer Eliza Haywood are the novels Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry (1719-1720), The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751), and The Invisible Spy (1755). Her Anti-Pamela; or, Feign'd Innocence Detected, in a Series of Syrena's Adventures (1741) satirized Samuel Richardson's popular novel. Haywood penned a large number of plays as well, and conducted an essay periodical loosely modeled on Joseph Addison's Spectator which she called Female Spectator (1744-1746).

A close friend of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, feminist, philosopher, biographer, historian, literary critic, novelist, and educational writer Mary Hays was among the most radical of British women writers during the 1790s. Mary Hays's early education reflected the views of her parents, rational dissenters John and Elizabeth Hays, and was heavily informed by debates at the Dissenting meeting house.

The Haymarket Theatre opened in late 1720, only to struggle financially for its first several years. In the 1730s, Henry Fielding staged a series of satires parodying prime minister Robert Walpole. These pieces drew audiences, but they also enraged Walpole sufficiently to prompt him to engineer passage of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737, which initiated the censorship of British drama that continued through most of the twentieth century.

English poet, biographer, essayist, patron of the arts, and friend of William Cowper and William Blake. Hayley is best remembered for his Life of Cowper, a biography which contributed to the foundation of the modern biography.

English magistrate, author, and friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole. Sir John Hawkins was author of A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (1776), the first history of music to be published in English, as well as the first full biography of his close friend, the Life of Samuel Johnson (1787).