title: List of 18th-century British children's literature authors
text: # 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)
  * Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
  * John Newbery (1713–1767)
  * Christopher Smart (1722–1771)
  * Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
  * Dorothy Kilner (1735–1836)
  * Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810)
  * Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)
  * Ellenor Fenn (1743–1813)
  * Hannah More (1745–1833)
  * John Aikin (1747–1822)
  * Thomas Day (1748–1789)
  * Charlotte Smith (1749–1806)
  * Mary Ann Kilner (1753–1831)
  * Maria Elizabetha Jacson (1755–1829)
  * Dorothy Kilner (1755–1836)
  * Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849)
  * Lucy Peacock (fl. 1775–1816)
  * Charles Lamb (1775 – 1834)
  