List of early-modern women poets (UK)

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This is an alphabetical list of female poets who were active in the United Kingdom before approximately 1800. Nota bene : Poetry is the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre.

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  1. ↑ Jane Stevenson & Peter Dyer, Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700): An Anthology (Oxford, 2001), pp. 222-4.
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