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This week's featured author pagesCharles Kingsley (1819 - 1875) -- English clergyman, novelist
William Whewell (1794 - 1866) -- Cambridge philosopher of science
Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) -- introspective member of the famous Brontë family, whose only novel is one of the most significant of its period.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) -- writer who is remembered in philosophy for his rejection of sceptical metaphysics
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805) -- great German dramatist and lyric poet, who was also an accomplished philosopher and historian