The last of the Tudor monarchs, Elizabeth became queen in 1558. Sometimes known as "the Virgin Queen" for the fact that she never married, she presided over what many regarded as a golden age of British arts and expansionism.

Known for her Lettres du marquis de Roselle (1764).

Author of Canons of Criticism (1748) as well as a number of sonnets respected by his contemporaries.

An English farmer, poet, dramatist, and composer, sometimes known as Richard Edwardes. His play Palamon and Arcite, now lost, was performed for the court of Elizabeth I in 1566. The excellent Comedie of two the moste faithfullest Freendes, Damon and Pithias (published 1571) is his only now-extant drama. Some of his poems appeared in the Paradise of Dainty Devices (1576).

Known as The Black Prince allegedly because of the black armor he wore as a commander in the Hundred Years War, Edward was heir apparent to Edward III.

The eldest surviving son of King Edward IV, young Edward V was the King of England from April to June of 1483, when he was deposed and possibly murdered by his uncle, the future King Richard III.

Called, until 1459, Earl of March, Edward IV, the House of York representative, became King of England in June 1461 during the War of the Roses after deposing Lancastrian King Henry VI. In October 1470 Henry VI was briefly reinstalled on the throne, but was defeated and then died in May 1471, when Edward returned to the throne and held power until his death.

King of England from 1327 to 1377, he led the country into the Hundred Years War with France.

Established in 1802 under publisher Archibald Constable, the extremely influential, liberal-leaning Edinburgh Review, was published quarterly until 1929. The periodical did much to disseminate the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment and helped cement Edinburgh's reputation as a literary capital. It's most important rival was the Quarterly Review. Though not it's first editor, Francis Jeffrey, who took over in 1803, established the periodical's tone and reputation, making it a model of the type of literary and cultural journalism that still dominates the genre today.

A popular Irish author of fiction and children's literature, Edgeworth sometimes collaborated with her father, politician Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Her first publication, with publisher Joseph Johnson, was Letters for Literary Ladies (1795). Johnson was both an important publisher and a family friend, and Edgworth's publishing relationship with him continued for the duration of Johnson's life. Her better known novels include Castle Rackrent (1800), Belinda (1801), The Modern Griselda: A Tale (1805), Leonora (1806), and Harrington (1817).