Controversial Dutch theologian and translator.

Bishop of Bath and Wales and fellow of Christ's College at Cambridge. Still was long presumed to be the author of Grammer Gurton's Needle, though evidence has since suggested William Stevenson as its true author.

Son of a mathematician, Stewart became a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, teaching at the University of Edinburgh on mathematics and moral and political philosophy, and through his lectures and writings profoundly influencing many British literary and political figures. He was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

English clergyman and likely playwright of Grammer Gurton's Needle, a play of disputed authorship from the beginnings of English comedy.

Sterne's two most important novels, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1760-67) and The Sentimental Journey (1768), mark him as a major figure in the history of both sentimental and experimental fiction.

English Shakespearean commentator best remembered for his collaboration with Samuel Johnson on a 10-volume publication of the complete plays of William Shakespeare. Steevens later produced a 15-volume revision of the work, altering and adding material seemingly for the purpose of proving his superiority to fellow Shakespearian scholar Edmond Malone. Steevens also exposed the poetic forgeries of Thomas Chatterton.

Poet, dramatist, and satirist, Irish writer Sir Richard Steele is best remembered for his collaboration with Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift in essay periodicals such as the Spectator, the Tatler, and the Guardian, many of which he penned, as did Addison and especially Swift, under the pseudonym "Isaac Bickerstaff."

1st century CE Roman poet, author of Thebaid, which recounts the struggle between Oedipus's sons for control of Thebes.

The third Duke of Buckingham, Edward Stafford was a first cousin once removed of King Henry VIII. Stafford held immense political power during the reign of Henry VIII, until he was accused, likely falsely, of plotting to kill the king and thus beheaded a month later.

Staël's Delphine (1803) was popular among British women, but her Corinne, ou l'Italie (1807) exerted a crucial influence on Romantic women's conceptions of the female artist. Her career as a critic, literary philosopher, and analyst of national character began with Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau (1788), translated as Letters on the Works and Character of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1789).