A French epistolary novelist, Riccoboni's influence in England depended on early translations of several of her novels, including Histoire de M.

Spanish artist also known as José de Ribera and as "Lo Spagnoletto." His paintings followed those of Caravaggio in style but emphasized scenes of agony and horror such as The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, depicting the saint's flaying.

Frederick Reynolds was a prolific if only moderately successful English playwright. Among his many plays was the comedy The Dramatist, or Stop Him Who Can (1789).

An French churchman, who claimed literary fame for his memoirs, published in 1717, which detail the political intrigues of France between 1648 and 1652.

Italian baroque painter of mythological and religious subjects, very much admired in England during the Romantic period. A portrait of Beatrice Cenci ascribed to him inspired Percy Bysshe Shelley's play The Cenci (1819).

A Leipzig bookseller.

A landmark figure in the development of the Gothic novel, Reeve was also a poet, educational writer, and literary critic. Her Original Poems in Several Occasions appeared in 1769 under the initials C.R. Reeve's most significant novel was The Champion of Virtue. A Gothic Story (1777), republished as The Old English Baron (1778). Its preface offers important comments on the theory of the Gothic novel. Her historical novel Memoirs of Sir Roger de Clarendon, the Natural Son of Edward Prince of Wales, Commonly Called the Black Prince (1793) is also noteworthy.

English theatrical editor and Shakespearean scholar, best known for his Biographia Dramatica (1782).

Italian biologist, physician, linguist, and poet. His best-known literary work was Bacco in Toscana (1685).

A clerk assistant to the House of Commons, Read was close enough friend to Samuel Richardson that Richardson intended to leave Read a mourning ring, but was prevented by Read's own death.