Author Choices for Ms. Jackyra’s 12th Grade Research Paper

Achebe, Chinua ("Girls at War"; Things Fall Apart) Contemporary, Nigerian

Austen, Jane (Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion) 18th c., British

Blake, William (Songs of Innocence and Experience) Romantic, British

Bronte, Charlotte (Jane Eyre; Villette) 19th c., British

Bronte, Emily (Wuthering Heights) 19th c., British

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (Sonnets from the Portuguese; Aurora Leigh) Victorian, British

Browning, Robert ("My Last Duchess"; "Porphyria’s Lover") Victorian, British

Byron, Lord ("She Walks in Beauty"; "Darkness" ) Romantic, British

Carroll, Lewis (pen name of Charles L. Dodgson) (Alice ’s Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; "The Hunting of the Snark"; "Jabberwocky") Victorian, British

Conrad, Joseph ("Secret Sharer"; Heart of Darkness) 20th c., Polish-born

Dante, Alighieri (The Divine Comedy) Medieval, Italian

Donne, John ("The Sun Rising"; "Death Be Not Proud") 17th c., British

Eliot, George (pen name of Mary Ann Evans) (Daniel Deronda; Middlemarch; Silas Marner) Victorian, British

Joyce, James ("Araby"; "A Little Cloud") Modern, Irish

Kafka, Franz ("In the Penal Colony"; The Metamorphosis) Modern, Czech-born, German/Jewish

Lewis, C.S. (The Chronicles of Narnia) 20th c., Irish

Shelley, Mary ("The Mortal Immortal"; Frankenstein) 19th c., British

Shelley, P.B. ("Mont Blanc"; "Ozymandias") 19th c., British

Tennyson, Alfred Lord ("Ulysses"; "The Eagle"; "Flower in a Crannied Wall") Victorian, British

20. Tolkien, J.R.R. (Lord of the Rings) 20th c., British

21. Walcott, Derek ("Far Cry from Africa"; "The Virgins ") Contemporary, West

Indian (Caribbean), poet and playwright

22. Wilde, Oscar (The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest; An

Ideal Husband) Victorian, Irish

23. Woolf, Virginia (A Room of One’s Own; Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse)

Modern, British

24. Yeats, W.B. ("Leda and the Swan"; "The Second Coming") 20th c., Irish

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