SeriesVery Interesting People

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William Shakespeare (Very Interesting People) by Peter Holland 30 copies, 1 reviewOUP 1
George Eliot by Rosemary Ashton 41 copies, 1 reviewOUP 2
Charles Dickens (Very Interesting People) by Michael Slater 21 copiesOUP 3
Charles Darwin (Very Interesting People) by Adrian Desmond 69 copies, 2 reviewsOUP 4
Isaac Newton (Very Interesting People) by Richard S. Westfall 62 copiesOUP 5
Elizabeth I (Very Interesting People) by Patrick Collinson 66 copies, 1 reviewOUP 6
George III (Very Interesting People) by John Cannon 7 copies, 1 reviewOUP 7
Benjamin Disraeli (Very Interesting People) by Jonathan Parry 47 copiesOUP 8
Christopher Wren by Kerry Downes 64 copies, 1 reviewOUP 9
John Ruskin (Very Interesting People) by Robert Hewison 12 copiesOUP 10
James Joyce (Very Interesting People Series) by Bruce Stewart 13 copiesOUP 11
John Milton (Very Interesting People) by Gordon Campbell 6 copies, 1 reviewOUP 12
Jane Austen (Very Interesting People) by Marilyn Butler 10 copiesOUP 13
Henry VIII (Very Interesting People) by Eric Ives 42 copiesOUP 14
Queen Victoria (Very Interesting People) by K. D. Reynolds 41 copies, 1 reviewOUP 15
Winston Churchill (Very Interesting People) by Paul Addison 46 copies, 1 reviewOUP 16
Oliver Cromwell by John Morrill 58 copies, 1 reviewOUP 17
Thomas Paine (Very Interesting People) by Mark Philp 29 copies, 1 reviewOUP 18
J. M. W. Turner (Very Interesting People) by Luke Herrmann 7 copiesOUP 19
William and Mary (Very Interesting People) by Tony Claydon 7 copiesOUP 20

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Short biographies originally published in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). (English, Unclassified)

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