Criteri: secolo, reperibilità (per English si intende lingua inglese indipendentemente dalla diversa regione di provenienza, ma sempre UK + Irlanda)

'700 (novel)

• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, (British, 1719)
• Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess, (British, 1719)
• Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, (Irish, 1726)
• Samuel Richardson, Pamela, (British, 1740)
• Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, (British, 1749)
• Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, (British, 1759–1767)
• Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, (British, 1764)
• Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, (Irish, 1766)
• Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Scottish, 1771)
• Frances Burney, Evelina, (British, 1778)
• Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, (British, 1794)
• Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, (British, 1796)
• Matthew Lewis, The Monk, (British, 1796)

(poetry)

• William Wordsworth
• Thomas Gray
• Alexander Pope
• Robert Burns
• William Blake

'800 (novel)

• Jane Austen