List of early-modern women poets (UK)
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poets A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
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.


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*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 Janet Margaret Todd OBE (born 10 September 1942) is a British academic and author. She was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida, where she undertook a doctorate on the poet John Clare. Much of her work concerns Mary ...
, ed. ''British Women Writers: a critical reference guide''. London: Routledge, 1989. ( Internet Archive)


External links


Bibliography of Early Modern Women Writers That Are In Print
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.

Collectively, the resources at this site "provide information about any 17th-century British woman 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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