• Jane Austen, English author : Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice
• Honoré de Balzac, French author : Le Père Goriot
• Charles Baudelaire, 1821 - 1867, French poet : Les Fleurs du Mal
• Charlotte Brontë 1816 - 1855, English author: Wuthering Heights
• Lord Byron, English poet
• Chateaubriand, French author, poet and diplomat
• Charles Dickens, 1812 - 1870, Oliver Twist (1837),
• Fedor Dostoïevski, 1821 - 1881, Russian author: The Brothers Karamazov
• Alexandre Dumas, père, 1802 - 1870, French novelist: The Three Musketeers
• Gustave Flaubert, 1821 - 1880, French author: Madame Bovary,
• Gobineau, 1813 - 1882, French author, diplomat, creator of Social Darwinism.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author and poet
• Victor Hugo, 1802 - 1885, French author, poet and playwright: Les Misérables
• Heinrich von Kleist, German author
• Lamartine, French writer, poet, historian and diplomat
• Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher
• Stéphane Mallarmé, 1842 - 1898, French poet
• Alessandro Manzoni, 1785 - 1873, Italian author
• Prosper Mérimée, 1803 - 1870, French writer, historian, archaeologis : Carmen
• Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet : The Raven
• Arthur Rimbaud, 1854 - 1891, French poet : Une Saison en Enfer
• Anton Tchekhov, 1860 - 1904, Russian writer and playwright: The Seagull
• Léon Tolstoï, Russian author : Anna Karenina, War and Peace
• Jules Verne, 1828 - 1905, French author : 20, 000 Leagues under the Sea
• Walt Whitman, 1819 - 1892, Amercan poet : Blades of Grass
• Emile Zola, 1840 - 1902, French writer and journalist : Germinal, J’Accuse