Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her work is ...

Léon-Émile Petitdidier, known as Émile Blémont, born July 17, 1839 in Paris where he died February 1, 1927, is a French poet and playwright. A prolific poet and occasional playwright, he was linked to Victor Hugo as well as to the poets of Parnassus and the symbolist poets. Rimbaud gave him the manu...

Henri-Émile Chevalier born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, France on 1828 and died on 1879.Henry-Emile Chevalier was forced in exile by the December 1851 Coup d'Etat in France. In March 1853, he came to Montreal and joined Georges-Hippolythe Cherrier who had just started a new periodical called La Ruche Li...

Émile Gigault de La Bédollière, born May 24, 1812 in Amiens, died April 24, 1883 in Paris 1st arrondissement (51 rue d'Argenteuil), is a French writer, goguettier, journalist and translator. Son of Pierre Gigault de La Bédollière and Sophie Vérité, nephew of Count L. Gigault of La Bédollière de Bell...

Émile Gaboriau (9 November 1832 – 28 September 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction. Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime. He was the son of Charles Gabriel Gaboriau, a public official and his mother was Marguerite Stéphanie ...

Émile Souvestre (April 15, 1806 – July 5, 1854) was a Breton novelist who was a native of Morlaix, Brittany. Initially unsuccessful as a writer of drama, he fared better as a novelist (he wrote a sci-fi novel, Le Monde Tel Qu'il Sera) and as a researcher and writer of Breton folklore. He was posthum...

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902). was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political lib...

Emmanuel Cosquin (1841 - 1919) was a French folklorist. He wrote the Popular Tales of Lorraine, collected in the only village of Montiers-sur-Saulx, he defends the thesis according to which European tales are of Indian origin. Born in 1841 in Vitry-le-François, Emmanuel Cosquin first pursued law stu...

Erckmann-Chatrian was the name used by French authors Émile Erckmann (1822–1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826–1890), nearly all of whose works were jointly written. Both Erckmann and Chatrian were born in the département of Meurthe (now Moselle), in the Lorraine region in the extreme north-east of F...