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Identify these famous British writers, events and places   He was an English writer, mathematician, logician ,Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.

Lewis Carrol

Identify these famous British writers, events and places   Born in Portsmouth, he  left school to work in a factory when his  father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of  formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote  15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non­fiction  articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an  indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for  children's rights, education, and other social reforms. His literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The  Pickwick Papers.

Charles Dickens

Identify these famous British writers, events and places He  (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, he wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Identify these famous British writers, events and places He also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) "Auld Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and "Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well known across the world today include "A Red, Red Rose", "A Man's a Man for A' That", "To a Louse, "To a Mouse", "The Battle of Sherramuir", "Tam o' Shanter" and "Ae Fond Kiss".

Robert Burns

Identify these famous British writers, events and places He is known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland. He is known for both his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy and his nonfiction, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles and The Problem of Pain.

Clive Staples Lewis

Identify these famous British writers, events and places He is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. In 2008, The Times named him one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. His Dark Materials trilogy, Northern Lights, won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding English-language children's book.

Philip Pullman

Identify these famous British writers, events and places He was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Sir Walter Scott

Identify these famous British writers, events and places He was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including  Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing  spillikins ".

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Identify these famous British writers, events and places He was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. While many other authors had published works of fantasy before him, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Identify these famous British writers, events and places She is a British novelist, screenwriter, and producer who is best known for writing the Harry Potter  fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films, over which she had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films in the series.

Joanne Rowling

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