List of early-modern women poets (UK)

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This is an alphabetical list of women poets who were active in the United Kingdom before approximately 1800. (NB. Poetry is the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre).

Margaret Cavendish, 17thc poet
Margaret Cavendish, 17thc poet

Contents

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

B

C

D

  • Charlotte Dacre (1782-1841)
  • Alicia D'Anvers (1667–1725)
  • Mary Darwall (1738-1825)
  • Margaret Davies [Marged Dafydd] (c.1700–c.1785)
  • Mary Davys (1674-1732)
  • Eliza Day (fl. 1734-1814)
  • Maria De Fleury (fl. 1750-1791)
  • Sarah Dixon (c.1671-1745)
  • Lady Dorothea Du Bois (1728-1774)
  • Susanna Duncombe (1725-1812)

E

F

G

H

I

  • Anne Ingram (c.1696-1764)

J

  • Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860)
  • Elizabeth Jekyll (bap. 1624, d. 1653)
  • Catherine Jemmat (bap. 1714, d. c.1766)
  • Rachel Jevon (bap. 1627)
  • Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800-1833)
  • Mary Jones (1707–1778)

K

  • Isabella Kelly (c.1759-1857)
  • Anne Kemp (fl. 1658)
  • Anne Killigrew (1660–1685)
  • Anne King (b. c.1621, d. c.1684-1701)
  • Ann Cuthbert Knight (1788-1860)
  • Henrietta Knight (1699-1756)

L

M

  • Judith Madan (1702-1781)
  • Elizabeth Major (fl. 1656)
  • Bathsua Makin (1600-c.1675)
  • Delarivier Manley (1663 or ca. 1670-1724)
  • Catherine Rebecca Manners (1766/7-1852)
  • Demaris Masham (b. 1659)
  • Mary Masters (fl. 1733–1755)
  • Mary Anne McMullan (fl. 1816-1820)
  • Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (fl. 1598-1631)
  • Elizabeth Middleton (fl. 1637)
  • Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
  • Mary Mollineux (c.1651–1696)
  • Mary Monck (c.1678-1715)
  • Elizabeth Moody (d. 1814)
  • Mary Wortley Montagu (c.1689-1762)
  • Hannah More (1745-1833)
  • Arabella Moreton (c.1690-c.1741)
  • Sydney Owenson Morgan (1783-1859)
  • Martha Moulsworth (1577–1646)
  • Anne Murry (c.1755-ca. 1816)

N

  • Anna Jane Vardill Niven (1781–1852)
  • Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton (fl. 1795-1862)

O

  • Caroline Oliphant (1766–1845)
  • Henrietta O'Neill (1758-93)
  • Amelia Opie (1769-1853)
  • Mary Oxlie (fl. 1616)

P

Q

R

  • Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
  • Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh [Mary MacLeod] (c.1615–c.1707)
  • Clara Reeve (1729-1807)
  • Caroline E. Richardson (fl. 1818-1834)
  • Catherine Eliza Richardson (1777–1853)
  • Charlotte Caroline Richardson (1796–1854)
  • Elizabeth Smales Richardson (c.1759–1841)
  • Mary Robinson (1757-1800)
  • Frances Arabella Rowden (1780-c.1840)
  • Elizabeth Rowe (née Singer) (1674-1737)
  • Elizabeth Ryves (1750-1797)

S

  • Martha Sansom (1690-1736)
  • Mary Savage (fl. 1763-1777)
  • Anna Sawyer (fl. 1794-1801)
  • Mary Scott (1752-1793)
  • Anna Seward (1742-1809)
  • Frances Seymour (1699-1750)
  • Elizabeth Sheridan (1754-1792)
  • Mary Sidney Herbert (1561–1621)
  • Lilias Skene (1626/7–1697)
  • Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
  • Elizabeth Smith (1776-1806)
  • Joanna Southcott (1750-1814)
  • Caroline Southey (1787-1854)
  • Anne Southwell (1574-1636)
  • Rachel Speght (b. c.1597)
  • Mariana Starke (c.1762-1838)
  • Anne Steele (1717-1778)
  • Mary R. Stockdale (fl. 1812-1818)
  • Agnes Strickland (1796-1874)
  • Elizabrth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596-1660)
  • Alice Sutcliffe (fl. 1633)

T

  • Ann Taylor (1782-1866)
  • Elizabeth Taylor (fl. 1685-1720)
  • Ellen Taylor (fl. 1792)
  • Emily Taylor (1795-1872)
  • Jane Taylor (1783−1824)
  • Elizabeth Teft (bap. 1723, fl. 1741-1747)
  • Gertrude Thimelby (1617–1668)
  • Ann Thomas (fl. 1784-1795)
  • Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731)
  • Mary Tighe (1772-1810)
  • Jane Timbury (fl. 1750-1791)
  • Elizabeth Tipper (fl. 1698)
  • Elizabeth Tollet (1694-1754)
  • Anna Trapnel (fl. 1654-1660)
  • Elizabeth Trefusis (1763-1808)
  • Melesina Chenevix Trench (1768-1827)
  • Catherine Trotter (1679-1749)
  • Elizabeth Tudor (1533–1603)

U

V

  • Anna Jane Vardill (1781–1852)

W

X

Y

Z

[edit] References

  • Backscheider, Paula, and John Richetti, eds. Popular Fiction by Women, 1660-1730: An Anthology. Oxford: OUP, 1996.
  • Blain, Virginia, et al., eds. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990.
  • Buck, Claire, ed.The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992.
  • Greer, Germaine, ed. Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse. Farrar Staus Giroux, 1988.
  • Lonsdale, Roger ed. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
  • Robertson, Fiona, ed. Women's Writing, 1778-1838. Oxford: OUP, 2001.
  • Todd, Janet, ed. British Women Writers: a critical reference guide. London: Routledge, 1989.

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