English writer

UK-based penman

A person who writes in the English language, or a writer from England.

The phrase usually distinguishes nationality or language rather than describing a profession: Shakespeare was an English writer, She's studying English writers of the Victorian era.

Context determines whether the emphasis falls on language or origin.

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children's author · penny dreadful · poet · essayist · man of letters · librettist · allegorist · playwright · satirist · Jacobean · memoirist · biographer · humorist · Victorian · Edwardian · Contemporary · experimentalist · journalist

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nationality

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Literary creator from America

French writer · Russian writer · German writer · Irish writer · American author

relationship to text

English writerreader

One who peruses text

audience · literary critic · censor

Family

English, writer, England, Englishman, Englishwoman, write, writes, wrote, written

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