Biographies of literature writers written in English language

This dataset contains 1000 biographies of literature writers retrieved from the english version of Wikipedia. There is a total of 500 biographies of women writers extracted from the category entitled “19th-century_women_writers” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:19th-century_women_writers) and 500 male biographies extracted from the category “19th-century_male_writers” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:19th-century_male_writers)