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).

née Elizabeth Bellingham; literary patroness and an occasional author herself, Lady Echlin was sister to Lady Bradshaigh and wife to Sir Robert Echlin, 1699-1757 (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

Born Charlotte Anne Waldie, Eaton began her writing career with a manuscript entitled "At Home and Abroad," which she temporarily abandoned after publishing a letter in the Monthly Magazine (vol. 2, 1814) addressing the similarities between her work in progress and Maria Edgeworth's novel Patronage. After visiting the Waterloo battlefield in 1815, Eaton authored Narrative of a Residence in Belgium, During the Campaign of 1815, and of a Visit to the Field of Waterloo. By an Englishwoman (1817).

Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, née Rigby, began her reviewing career in 1836 at the Foreign Quarterly Review and regularly contributed to the Quarterly Review. After a trip to Russia, she produced the travel memoir First Residence on the Shores of the Baltic (1841) as well as two works of fiction, The Jewess: a tale from the shores of the Baltic (1843) and the collection Livonian Tales (1846). She married the painter Sir Charles Eastlake in 1849 and collaborated with him thereafter on several treatises on art.

Painter and art critic Sir Charles Eastlake was elected President of the Royal Academy and knighted in 1850, served as the first President of the Photographic Society beginning 1853 and became Director of the National Gallery in 1855. He married the reviewer, travel author, and art critic Elizabeth Rigby in 1949.

Dyson was not only Mark Akenside's friend and literary patron, but he supported Akenside's medical practice as well. As Akenside's literary executor, Dyson edited a collection of Akenside's poetry published as The Poems of Mark Akenside, M.D. (1772).

Biographer, historian, theologian, poet, and critic, Dyer was known for his congeniality despite his personal eccentricities. His poetry appeared in Poems (1792), The Poet's Fate (1797), Poems (1801), and Poems and Critical Essays (1802). Poetics, or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry (1812) defends his poetic method, which some of his contemporaries had criticized as misguided.

Poet and playwright. Between 1757 and 1759, he and his son, clergyman and writer John Duncombe, published The Works of Horace in English Verse.

née Highmore; an artist in her own right, she was daughter to painter Joseph Highmore and his wife, also Susanna.