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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.

Wroth, Sonnet 7, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
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. ^ Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660-1800. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. (Internet Archive)
  2. ^ 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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