1 Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849
2 Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
3 Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899
4 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948
5 Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
6 Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
7 Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
8 Cather, Willa Sibert, 1873-1947
9 Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
10 Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947
11 Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
12 Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
13 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
14 Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
15 Finley, Martha, 1828-1909
16 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930
17 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
18 Eliot, George, 1819-1880
19 Green, Anna Katharine, 1846-1935
20 Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
21 Haggard, Henry Rider, 1856-1925
22 Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
23 Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
24 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
25 James, Henry, 1843-1916
26 Hope, Laura Lee
27 Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943
28 Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880
29 London, Jack, 1876-1916
30 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873
31 MacDonald, George, 1824-1905
32 Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, 1860-1936
33 Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
34 Meredith, George, 1828-1909
35 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942
36 Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924
37 Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958
38 Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
39 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
40 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
41 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
42 Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882
43 Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
44 Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920
45 Warner, Susan, 1819-1885
46 Wells, Carolyn, 1862-1942
47 Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
48 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
49 Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975
50 Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901