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.

Paul de Rapin authored a notable history of England (1724), translated from the French and published in English in 1725.

Italian painter appreciated for the harmonious grace of his painting.