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
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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”Rhodes, Henrietta .” The Women's Print History Project , 2019, Person ID 2791. Accessed 2023-01-02.
"Elizabeth Tipper ." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present . Cambridge UP.
"Turner, Margaret ." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2786. Accessed 2023-01-02.
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 )