Regency Celebrities by Image

I commanded the British fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, fighting the French and Spanish. I was (actually not) blind in one eye, after being wounded in battle.

I wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan

I painted the places "I knew best" in Suffolk. I was famed for my naturalistic style of landscape.

I wrote Pride and Prejudice.

I was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. I am considered to be one of the founders of feminist philosophy.

I co-wrote Lyrical Ballads with another eminent Romantic poet.

I was called "the angel of prisons" for my reform work. I kept extensive diaries about my philanthropic work.

I was a writer and spy in residence in Paris during the French Revolution. I was an eyewitness to events detailed in my extensive memoirs, "Journal of my life during the French Revolution"

I was a radical writer famous for my idiosyncratic views and esoteric poetry. I wrote "The Tyger."

I painted turbulent, dramatic landscapes which elevated landscape painting.

I was a second generation Romantic poet who had an intense relationship with Fanny Brawne. I wrote "Ode to a Nightingale."

I was considered a paragon of men's fashion. I am now considered the original dandy.

I wrote the poem Don Juan.

I served as king regent to my father due to his mental illness.

I authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain.

Born on a slave ship, I was a British composer, actor, and writer. I was the only Briton of African heritage known to have voted in the 18th century for members of parliament in Westminster.