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This week's featured author pages

Charles Brockden Brown (1771 - 1810) -- pioneering American gothic novelist

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) -- Scottish historian and essayist, who famously argued that history is the biography of great men

Anthony Hope (1863 - 1933) -- English novelist and playwright

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) -- influential early feminist, who argued for educational and social equality

Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) -- Edwardian era novelist, essayist and poet