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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.
The seventh sonnet of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus , from a manuscript in Wroth's own hand, c. 1620.
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See also
Notes
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Todd, Janet , ed. A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660-1800 . Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. (
Internet Archive )
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n Lonsdale, Roger, ed. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology . Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Rhodes, Henrietta .” The Women's Print History Project , 2019, Person ID 2791. Accessed 2023-01-02.
^ Burke, T. (Ed.). (2003). Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets: 1780-1800 (1st ed.). Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429350191
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Elizabeth Tipper ." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present . Cambridge UP.
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Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
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Turner, Margaret ." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2786. Accessed 2023-01-02.
Resources
Blain, Virginia, et al., eds. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English . New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (
Internet Archive )
Buck, Claire, ed.The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature . Prentice Hall, 1992. (
Internet Archive )
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. (
Internet Archive )
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter. An encyclopedia of British women writers . Rutgers University Press, 1998. (
Internet Archive )
Todd, Janet , ed. British Women Writers: a critical reference guide . London: Routledge, 1989. (
Internet Archive )
Todd, Janet , ed. A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660-1800 . Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. (
Internet Archive )
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