List of early-modern British women poets

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This is an alphabetical list of female poets who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. Nota bene : Authors of poetry are the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre.

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The seventh sonnet of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, from a manuscript in Wroth's own hand, c. 1620 Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Sonnet 7 (Wroth, c. 1620).jpg
The seventh sonnet of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, from a manuscript in Wroth's own hand, c. 1620

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660-1800. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. (Internet Archive)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Lonsdale, Roger, ed. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. Oxford University Press, 1989.
  3. ↑ ”Rhodes, Henrietta.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2791. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  4. ↑ Burke, T. (Ed.). (2003). Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets: 1780-1800 (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429350191
  5. ↑ "Elizabeth Tipper." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge UP.
  6. ↑ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  7. ↑ "Turner, Margaret." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2786. Accessed 2023-01-02.

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