- George Eliot
- D.H. Lawrence
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Anthony Trollope
- Sherwood Anderson
- Ambrose Bierce
- Louis de Bernières
- Walter Scott
- Émile Zola
- Anne Brontë
- Nella Larsen
- Ivan Turgenev
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Guy de Maupassant
- Ford Madox Ford
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Alexander Pushkin
- Bret Harte
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Katherine Mansfield