English Men of Letters

English Men of Letters was a series of literary biographies written by leading literary figures of the day and published by Macmillan, under the general editorship of John Morley. The original series was launched in 1878, with Leslie Stephen's biography of Samuel Johnson, and ran until 1892. A second series, again under the general editorship of Morley, was published between 1902 and 1919.

First series

 * 1. Leslie Stephen, Samuel Johnson, 1878
 * 2. James Cotter Morison, Gibbon, 1878
 * 3. Richard H. Hutton, Sir Walter Scott, 1878
 * 4. John Addington Symonds, Shelley, 1878
 * 5. Thomas Henry Huxley, Hume, 1879
 * 6. William Black, Goldsmith, 1878
 * 7. William Minto, Daniel Defoe, 1879
 * 8. John Campbell Shairp, Robert Burns, 1879
 * 9. R. W. Church, Spenser, 1879
 * 10. Anthony Trollope, Thackeray, 1879
 * 11. John Morley, Burke, 1879
 * 12. Mark Pattison, Milton, 1879
 * 13. Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1879
 * 14. Edward Dowden, Southey, 1879
 * 15. Adolphus William Ward, Chaucer, 1879
 * 16. Goldwin Smith, Cowper, 1880
 * 17. James Anthony Froude, Bunyan, 1879
 * 18. John Nichol, Byron, 1880
 * 19. Thomas Fowler, Locke, 1880
 * 20. Leslie Stephen, Alexander Pope, 1880


 * 21. Alfred Ainger, Charles Lamb, 1882
 * 22. David Masson, Quincey, 1881
 * 23. Sidney Colvin, Landor, 1881
 * 24. George Saintsbury, Dryden, 1881
 * 25. F. W. H. Myers, Wordsworth, 1881
 * 26. Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Bentley, 1882
 * 27. Leslie Stephen, Swift, 1882
 * 28. Adolphus William Ward, Dickens, 1882
 * 29. Edmund Gosse, Gray, 1882
 * 30. H. D. Traill, Sterne, 1882
 * 31. James Cotter Morison, Macaulay, 1882
 * 32. Austin Dobson, Fielding, 1883
 * 33. Mrs. Oliphant, Sheridan, 1883
 * 34. W. J. Courthope, Addison, 1884
 * 35. R. W. Church, Bacon, 1884
 * 36. H. D. Traill, Coleridge, 1884
 * 37. John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney, 1886
 * 38. Sidney Colvin, Keats, 1887
 * 39. John Nichol, Thomas Carlyle, 1892