- Björastjerne Björnson (b. 1832).
- Juhani Aho.
- Frederika Bremer (1801-1865).
- Meyer Aaron Goldschmidt [Danish] (1819-1887).
- Alex. Lange Kielland (b. 1849).
- Selma Lagerlöf (b. 1858).
- Hans Christian Andersen [Danish] (1805-1875).
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, UNITED STATES
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907).
- James Matthew Barrie (b. 1860).
- H. C. Bunner (1855-1896).
- George W. Cable (b. 1844).
- William Canton (b. 1845).
- William Carleton (1794-1869).
- Samuel L. Clemens [Mark Twain] (1835-1910).
- Wilkie Collins (1824-1889).
- Richard Harding Davis (b. 1864).
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
- A. Conan Doyle (b. 1859).
- Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849).
- Edward Eggleston (1837-1902).
- Mary Ann Evans [George Eliot] (1819-1880).
- Hamlin Garland (b. 1860).
- Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909).
- Joel Chandler Harris (b. 1848).
- Thomas Hardy (b. 1840).
- Francis Bret Harte (1839-1902).
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).
- Anthony Hope Hawkins (b. 1863).
- William Dean Howells (b. 1837).
- Washington Irving (1783-1859).
- Henry James (b. 1843).
- Sarah Orne Jewett (b. 1849).
- Rudyard Kipling (b. 1865).
- Charles J. Lever (1806-1872).
- Jack London (b. 1876).
- Samuel Lover (1791-1868).
- James Brander Matthews (b. 1852).
- George Meredith (1828-1909).
- Mary N. Murfree [Charles Egbert Craddock] (b. 1850).
- Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862).
- Thomas Nelson Page (b. 1853).
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
- Charles Reade (1814-1884).
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).
- F. Hopkinson Smith (b. 1838).
- Frank B. Stockton (1834-1902).
- Louise de la Ramée ["Ouida">[ (d. 1909).
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1812-1896).
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1862).
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (b. 1844).
- John Watson [Ian Maclaren] (1850-1907).
- Edith Wharton (b. 1862).
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (b. 1862).
CHAPTER VII
Incident
Many well-told and interesting incidents are found in the correspondence of the letter-writers whose works are indicated below.
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 vols. (Scribners); The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (Bohn); Cowper's Letters, edited by E. V. Lucas (W. C.); Lady Montagu's Letters (E. L.); Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, by J. A. Froude, 2 vols. (Scribners); Letters of Charles Lamb, 2 vols. (E. L.); Letters of Mme. de Sévigné (In French—Paris, 1844); Life and Letters of George Eliot, by J. W. Cross, 2 vols. (Crowell); Matthew Arnold's Letters, collected by George W. E. Russell (Macmillan); Darwin's Life and Letters, 2 vols. (Appleton); Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with notes by R. Barrett Browning and F. G. Kenyon, 2 vols.
Anecdote
Spence's Anecdotes: a selection (Scott Library); Johnsoniana, edited by J. Wilson Croker (Philadelphia, 1842); The Percy Anecdotes, by Reuben and Sholte Percy (Warne: London); The Jest Book, by Mark Lemon (Cambridge, 1865); Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, by Hester Lynch Poizzi (C. N. L. No. 106); Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott, by James Hogg (Harpers, 1834).