- William Godwin
- Victor Hugo
- Tobias Smollet
- Théophile Gautier
- Sir Walter Scott
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Samuel Richardson
- Richard Steele and Joseph Addison
- Prosper Mérimée
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
- John Bunyan
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jean de Meung
- Jane Austen
- Honoré De Balzac
- Henry Fielding
- Guy De Maupassant
- Gustave Flaubert
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- François René De Chateaubriand
- Fanny Burney
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Daniel Defoe
- Alexandre Dumas
- Alain René Le Sage