Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Ann Noreen Widdecombe ( born 4 October 1947 ) is a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000.

Financial backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer.

* 1888 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright ( d. 1965 )

* Arnold Bennett ( 1867 – 1931 ), British novelist

* 1886 – Ronald Firbank, British novelist ( d. 1926 )

* 1824 – Wilkie Collins, British novelist ( d. 1889 )

Beria is a significant character in the opening chapters of the novel Archangel, written by British novelist Robert Harris.

* 1960 – Jenny Eclair, British comedienne, novelist and actress.

* 1850 – Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher ( d. 1935 )

* 1910 – Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist ( d. 1979 )

* 1931 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist ( b. 1867 )

* 1912 – Hilda Nickson, née Hilda Pressley, British novelist ( d. 1977 )

* 1953 – Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist

* 1819 – George Eliot, British novelist ( d. 1880 )

* 1970 – Stel Pavlou, British novelist

* 1988 – Jyoti Guptara, British / Swiss novelist

* 1915 – Marghanita Laski, British journalist and novelist ( d. 1988 )

* 1881 – P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist ( d. 1975 )

" British novelist Malcolm Lowry, painter Oskar Kokoschka, orchestra director Wilhelm Furtwängler, and filmmaker Fritz Lang were also fans of Spengler's work.

The insignia was designed by famous English novelist Daphne du Maurier, who was married to the commander of the 1st Airborne Division ( and later the expanded British Airborne Forces ), General Frederick " Boy " Browning.

" He was known for his support of the hostage takers during the Iran hostage crisis and his fatwa calling for the death of British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie.

During the War, the propagandist John Buchan, became the pre-eminent British spy novelist.

Hoping to attract major press coverage, George Rappleyea went so far as to write to the British novelist H. G. Wells asking him to join the defense team.

The British gun brig Nancy was sent to rescue the survivors.

Shortly thereafter the Nanina encountered the British ship Nancy under Lt D ' Aranda who had sailed from the River Plate in order to rescue the survivors of the Isabella.

* October 4 – John Sawyer ( Nancy Buckingham, Christina Abbey, Erica Quest, Nancy John, Hilary London ), British romance novelist ( d. 1994 )

Nancy Willen encouraged DreamWorks to produce a special about the making of American Beauty, to set up displays of the film in the communities ' bookstores, and to arrange a question-and-answer session with Mendes for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Nancy Frankenberry, Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, has described Polkinghorne as the finest British theologian / scientist of our time, citing his work on the possible relationship between chaos theory and natural theology.

" which Hergé translates as " Qui s ' y frotte s ' y pique " " Who rubs himself there gets stung " ( in fact, the motto of Nancy, from the Latin non inultus premor, referring to its emblem, the thistle ; in the British edition, the translators rendered the motto " If you gather Thistles, expect Prickles ").

Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, ( 19 May 18792 May 1964 ) was the first woman to sit as a Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the British House of Commons.

As well, Bill Bird published through his Three Mountains Press until British heiress Nancy Cunard took it over.

Nancy Holmes, professor at the University of British Columbia, speculated that its patriotic nature and usage as a tool for propaganda may have led literary critics to view it as a national symbol or anthem rather than a poem.

* Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ( May 19, 1879 – May 2, 1964 ) was the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the British House of Commons.

Briefly, she worked as the American business partner of London-based tastemaker Nancy Lancaster, the Virginia-born owner of the eminent British textile firm Sybil Colefax & John Fowler.

In response to Noblesse Oblige, the book her sister Nancy co-wrote and edited on the class distinctions in British English, popularizing the phrases " U and non-U English " ( upper class and non-upper class ), Jessica described L and non-L ( Left and non-Left ) English, mocking the clichés used by her comrades in the all-out class struggle.

For instance, Christopher Sykes, in a sympathetic 1972 biography of Nancy Astor, argues that the entire story about the so-called Cliveden Set was an ideologically motivated fabrication by Claud Cockburn that came to be generally accepted by a public looking for scapegoats for British pre-war appeasement of Adolf Hitler.

While she was still at university, Pike made appearances on British television shows, including A Rather English Marriage ( 1998 ), Wives and Daughters ( 1999 ), and Love in a Cold Climate ( 2001 ), a miniseries based on Nancy Mitford's novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.

Though Spike and Dru had not been conceived as necessarily having to be either British or American, Landau chose to portray Drusilla with a Cockney accent in keeping with the characters ' " Sid and Nancy analogy ".

At one of the parties that her mother hosted for British émigré performers in their Laurel Canyon home, Lansbury met the casting director for the upcoming film Gaslight ( 1944 ), and he offered her the part of Nancy Oliver, Ingrid Bergman's conniving maid.

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC GM ( 30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011 ) served as a British agent during the later part of World War II.

On November 29, colonial Captain John Manley, commanding the schooner Lee, captured one of the most valuable prizes of the siege, the British brigantine Nancy, just outside Boston Harbor.

Sid and Nancy ( also known as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills ) is a 1986 British biopic directed by Alex Cox.

In 1895, he married Irene Langhorne, born in Danville, Virginia, a sister of Nancy Astor, the first woman to serve in as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.

* Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love ( 1945 ) is about the lives and loves of an unconventional British upper class family in rural England before and during the Second World War.

On August 17, at the mouth of the Nottawasaga River near Wasaga Beach, the British schooner HMS Nancy was sunk by three American vessels.