Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)

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1. Charles William Eliot

   Author of The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato; The Golden sayings of Epictetus; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Elizabethan Drama, Volume I: Marlowe; Shakespeare, Sacred Writings, Volume I: Confucian; Hebrew; Christian (Part I)

2. E. Nesbit

   Author of The Railway Children, The Enchanted Castle, The Phoenix and the Carpet

3. Sir Walter Scott

   Author of Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality

4. Will Durant

   Author of Our Oriental Heritage, The Age of Louis the XIV, The Age of Reason Begins

5. George MacDonald

   Author of The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and Curdie

6. Robert Louis Stevenson

   Author of Kidnapped, A Child's Garden of Verses, The Master of Ballantrae

7. Plutarch

   Author of The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demostheses and Cicero,Cæsar and Antony

8. Rudyard Kipling

   Author of Just So Stories, Puck of Pook's Hill, The Light That Failed

9. Edmund Burke

   Author of On taste; On the sublime and beautiful; Reflections on the French revolution; A letter to a noble lord

10. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Author of Essays and English Traits

11. Charles Kingsley

    Author of The Water-Babies, Westward Ho!, Heroes

12. Richard Henry Dana

    Author of Two Years Before the Mast, Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After

13. Mary Norton

    Author of The Borrowers, The Borrowers Afield

14. Andrew Lang

    Author of The Blue Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book

15. Frederick Marryat

    Author of The Children of the New Forest, Mr. Midshipman Easy

16. Charlotte M. Yonge

    Author of The Clever Woman of the Family, The Heir of Redclyffe, The Three Brides

17. Holling C. Holling

    Author of Seabird, Minn of the Mississippi, Tree in the Trail

18. Miguel de Cervantes

    Author of Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2]

19. Elizabeth Gaskell

    Author of North and South, Cranford, Wives and Daughters

20. Charles Darwin

    Author of On the Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle