Editing Surrey (section)

===Literature===
Besides its role in [[English Renaissance theatre|Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre]], many important writers have lived and worked in Surrey.

*''[[The Owl and the Nightingale]]'', one of the earliest [[Middle English]] poems; Nicholas of Guildford is mentioned in it several times.<ref name=Cartlidge2001>{{Cite book |title=The owl and the nightingale: Text and translation |date=2001 |publisher=University of Exeter Press |last=Cartlidge |first=Neil |isbn=0-85989-690-0 |location=Exeter |oclc=47356230}}</ref>
*[[John Donne]] (1572–1631) lived and worked for a time in [[Pyrford]].<ref>{{cite ODNB |last=Colclough |first=David |title=Donne, John (1572–1631) |id=7819 |date=19 May 2011}}</ref>
*[[John Evelyn]] (1620–1706) was born and spent much of his life in [[Wotton, Surrey|Wotton]], and is buried there.<ref>{{Citation |author=English Heritage | author-link=English Heritage | url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-290082-wotton-house-wotton | title=Wotton House | publisher=BritishListedBuildings.co.uk | access-date=10 October 2016}}</ref>
*[[Daniel Defoe]] (1659/61–1731) was educated in Dorking.
*[[William Cobbett]] (1763–1835) was born and raised in Farnham, later lived in [[Wyke, Surrey|Wyke]], where he died, and is buried in Farnham; Surrey features prominently in his ''[[Rural Rides]]''.
*[[Thomas Love Peacock]] (1785–1866) lived in [[Lower Halliford]], then part of Middlesex, now in Surrey.
*[[Benjamin Disraeli]] (1804–1881) wrote ''[[Coningsby (novel)|Coningsby]]'' while living in Dorking.
*[[Alfred Tennyson]] (1809–1892) spent the latter part of his life, and died, in [[Haslemere]].
*[[Charles Dickens]] (1812–1870) wrote part of ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' in Dorking, and refers to the town in the novel.
*[[Robert Browning]] (1812–1889) was born in [[Camberwell]], then part of Surrey.
*[[George Eliot]] (1819–1880) wrote most of ''[[Middlemarch]]'' while living in Haslemere.
*[[Matthew Arnold]] (1822–1888) lived in [[Laleham]], then part of Middlesex, now in Surrey.
*[[George Meredith]] (1828–1909) lived at Box Hill.
*[[Lewis Carroll]] (1832–1898) spent much of his time at his sisters' home in Guildford, where he wrote ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]''; he died there and is buried in the town.
*[[Isabella Beeton]] (1836–1865) lived for several years in Epsom, where her step-father was clerk of the racecourse.
*[[George Bernard Shaw]] (1856–1950) lived in Woking and later in [[Hindhead]], where he wrote ''[[Caesar and Cleopatra (play)|Caesar and Cleopatra]]''.
*[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] (1859–1930) lived and wrote many of his books in Hindhead and served as [[deputy lieutenant]] of Surrey; the county forms a setting for several of the [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories.
*[[J. M. Barrie]] (1860–1937) lived in [[Tilford]], and based ''The Boy Castaways'', which later evolved into ''[[Peter Pan]]'', in the nearby countryside.
*[[H. G. Wells]] (1866–1946) wrote ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' while living in Woking; much of northern Surrey is laid waste in the course of the story.
*[[John Galsworthy]] (1867–1933) was born in Kingston and the ''[[Forsyte Saga]]'' is partly set in the area.
*[[E. M. Forster]] (1879–1970) lived and wrote in [[Weybridge]] and [[Abinger Hammer]].
*[[P. G. Wodehouse]] (1881–1975) was born in Guildford and baptised there in [[St. Nicolas' Church, Guildford|St Nicolas' Church]].
*[[A. P. Herbert]] (1890–1971) was born in [[Ashtead]].
*[[Aldous Huxley]] (1894–1963) was born and raised in [[Godalming]] and his ashes are interred at Compton; the end of ''[[Brave New World]]'' is set in Surrey.
*[[Robert Graves]] (1895–1985) was born in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], then part of Surrey.
*[[Rosemary Sutcliff]] (1920–1992) was born in [[East Clandon]].
*[[Clive King]] (1924–2018) was born in [[Richmond, London|Richmond]], then part of Surrey.
*[[John Osborne]] (1929–1994) grew up in [[Stoneleigh, Surrey|Stoneleigh]].
*[[Kazuo Ishiguro]] (born 1954) grew up in Guildford.