List of early-modern women poets (UK)
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.
- 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 (d. 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.1786-17920
- 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 ca. 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 Turner 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)
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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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