List of early-modern women poets (England, Wales, and Great Britain)
This is an alphabetical list of female poets who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain before approximately 1800. Nota bene: Poetry is the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre.
- Eliza Acton (1799–1859)
- Jean Adams (1704–1765)
- Lucy Aikin (1781–1864)
- Mary Alcock (c. 1742 – 1798)
- Elizabeth Amherst (c. 1716–1779)
- Anne Askew (1521–1546)
- Mary Astell (1666–1731)
- Penelope Aubin (c. 1658 – 1731)
- Katherine Austen (1629 – c. 1683)
- Grizel Baillie (1665–1746)
- Joanna Baillie (1762–1851)
- Anne Bannerman (1765– 1829)
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)
- Mary Barber (c. 1690 – 1757)
- Jane Barker (1652–1732)
- Elizabeth Bath (fl. 1806)
- Henrietta Battier (c. 1751–1813)
- Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
- Elizabeth Bentley (1767–1839)
- Matilda Betham (1776–1852)
- Susanna Blamire (1747–1794)
- Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–1670)
- Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612 – 1672)
- Barbarina Brand (1767–1854)
- Hannah Brand (1754 – 1821)
- Frances Brooke (1724–1789)
- Frances Burney (1752–1840)
- Mary Cary (fl. 1650)
- Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806)
- Elizabeth Cary (1585–1639)
- Jane Cavendish (1620/21–1669)
- Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)
- Dorothea Celesia (bap. 1738, d. 1790)
- Susannah Centlivre (1667–1723)
- Hester Chapone (1727–1801)
- Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710)
- Alison Cockburn (1713–1794)
- An Collins (fl. 1653)
- Hannah Cowley (1743–1809)
- Charlotte Dacre (1782–1841)
- Alicia D'Anvers (1667–1725)
- Mary Davys (1674–1732)
- Eliza Day (fl. 1734–1814)
- Katherine Doyley Dyer (died 1654)[1]
- Elizabeth Egerton (1626–1663)
- Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723)
- Jean Elliot (1727–1805)
- Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756)
- Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834)
- Anne Finch (1661–1720)
- Martha Fowke (1689–1736)
- Caroline Fry (1787–1846)
- Frances Greville (c. 1727 – 1789)
- Jane Grey (1537–1554)
- Constantia Grierson (c. 1705 – 1732)
- Anne Halkett (1623–1699)
- Margaret Harvey (1768–1858)
- Eliza Haywood (1693–1756)
- Felicia Hemans (1793–1835)
- Mary Heron (fl. 1786–1792)
- Susanna Highmore (1689/90–1750)
- Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681)
- Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860)
- Isabella Kelly (c. 1759 – 1857)
- Anne Killigrew (1660–1685)
- Caroline Lamb (1785–1828)
- Mary Lamb (1764–1847)
- Laetitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)
- Aemilia Lanier (1569–1645)
- Mary Leapor (1722–1746)
- Charlotte Lennox (1720–1804)
- Anne Ley (c. 1599 – 1641)
- Anne Lindsay (1750–1825)
- Mary Linskill (1840–1891)
- Judith Madan (1702–1781)
- Bathsua Makin (1600 – c. 1675)
- Delarivier Manley (1663 or c. 1670 – 1724)
- Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (fl. 1598–1631)
- Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855)
- Mary Mollineux (c. 1651 – 1696)
- Mary Wortley Montagu (c. 1689 – 1762)
- Hannah More (1745–1833)
- Sydney Owenson Morgan (1783–1859)
- Celia Moss Levetus (1819–1873)
- Amelia Opie (1769–1853)
- Mary Oxlie (fl. 1616)
- Catherine Parr (c. 1512 – 1548)
- Katherine Philips (1631–1664)
- Sarah Piers (1697–1714)
- Laetitia Pilkington (c. 1708 – 1750)
- Hester Lynch Piozzi (1740–1821)
- Mary Pix (1666–1709)
- Anne Plumptre (1760–1818)
- Anna Maria Porter (1780–1832)
- Susanna Hawkins (1787–1868)
- Diana Primrose (fl. 1630)
- Hester Pulter (1605–1678)
- Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
- Clara Reeve (1729–1807)
- Mary Robinson (1757–1800)
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe (née Singer) (1674–1737)
- Mary Scott (1752–1793)
- Anna Seward (1742–1809)
- Elizabeth Sara Sheppard (1830–1862)
- Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (1754–1792)
- Mary Sidney Herbert (1561–1621)
- Charlotte Smith (1749–1806)
- Elizabeth Smith (1776–1806)
- Joanna Southcott (1750–1814)
- Rachel Speght (b. c.1597)
- Mariana Starke (c. 1762 – 1838)
- Anne Steele (1717–1778)
- Agnes Strickland (1796–1874)
- Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596–1660)
- Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
- Elizabeth Taylor (fl. 1685–1720)
- Jane Taylor (1783–1824)
- Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731)
- Elizabeth Thomas (1770/71–1855)
- Mary Tighe (1772–1810)
- Anna Trapnel (fl. 1654–1660)
- Catherine Trotter (1679–1749)
- Elizabeth Tudor (1533–1603)
- Elizabeth Wardlaw (1677–1727)
- Anna Weamys (fl. 1651)
- Jane West (1758–1852)
- Anne Wharton (1659–1685)
- Isabella Whitney (b. c.1540, fl. 1566–1573)
- Anna Williams (1706–1783)
- Helen Maria Williams (c. 1761 – 1827)
- Jane Wiseman (c. 1682 – 1717)
- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855)
- Frances Wright (1795–1852)
- Mary Wroth (1587–1652)
- Ann Yearsley (c. 1753 – 1806)
See also
References
- Jane Stevenson & Peter Dyer, Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700): An Anthology (Oxford, 2001), pp. 222-4.
- 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 Straus 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.
External links
- 17th Century Women Poets Biographical and bibliographical information on selected poets
- British Women Romantic Poets An electronic collection of texts for the period (1789–1832).
- The Brown University Women Writers Project Emphasis is on pre-Victorian women writers.
- A Celebration of Women Writers A major focus of this site is the development of on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works.
- Emory Women Writers Resource Project A collection of texts by women writing from the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century.
- List of biographical dictionaries Collectively, the resources at this site provide information about any 17th-century British women writer one could imagine.
- Luminarium An online Anthology of English Literature
- A Time-Line of English Poetry from Old English to Post Modern
- Representative Poetry Online Includes an index of 4,079 English poems by 618 poets, with bibliographies and literary criticism.
- Romantic Circles, a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
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