Major Writers of Classic Regency Fiction
- Jane Austen (1775–1817)
- Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849)
- Susan Ferrier (1782–1854)
- ETA Hoffman (1776–1822)
- Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
- Mary Shelley (1797–1851)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
- Johann David Wyss (1743–1818)
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