List of 18th-century British children's literature authors

This is a list of 18th-century British children's literature authors (arranged by year of birth):

Isaac Watts (1674–1748) ^[1]
Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)^[2]
John Newbery (1713–1767)^[3]
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) ^[4]
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
Dorothy Kilner (1735–1836)
Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810)^[5]
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)^[6]
Maria Elizabetha Jacson (1755–1829)
Hannah More (1745–1833)
Ellenor Fenn (1743–1813)^[7]
Thomas Day (1748–1789)
John Aikin (1747–1822)^[8]
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749–1806)
Mary Ann Kilner (1753–1831)
Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849)^[9]
Lucy Peacock (fl. 1775–1816)
Charles Lamb (1775 – 1834)

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