Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology

Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology is a poetry anthology edited by Roger Lonsdale and published in 1989 by the Oxford University Press. In the introduction, Lonsdale notes that while the featured writers may have flourished, to one degree or another, during the eighteenth century, by the time he came to collect their work, many of them had "disappeared from view." Scholars since have credited Lonsdale's "unprecedented" work for opening up new avenues for teaching and research. The collection comprises three hundred and twenty-three separate poems by one hundred and seven different poets, fifteen of whom remain anonymous. The entries are arranged chronologically, and each includes a biographical note.

Poets represented
Jean Adam

Mary Alcock

Elizabeth Amherst

Anonymous

Anonymous

Anonymous (“the amorous lady”)

Anonymous (“Eliza”)

Anonymous (“a female hand”)

Anonymous (“a lady”)

Anonymous (“a lady”)

Anonymous (“a lady”)

Anonymous (“a lady”)

Anonymous (“a lady”)

Anonymous (“a lady”)

Anonymous (“a lady”)

Anonymous (“Ophelia”)

Joanna Baillie

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Mary Barber

Matilda Betham

Susanna Blamire

Annabella Blount

Elizabeth Boyd

Charlotte Brereton

Jane Brereton

Frances Burney

Sophia Burrell

Rebekah Carmichael

Christian Carstairs

Elizabeth Carter

Jane Cave

Georgiana Cavendish

Susannah Centlivre

Mary Chandler

Hester Chapone

Mary Chudleigh

Alison Cockburn

Mary Collier

Hannah Cowley

Frances Maria Cowper

Ann Batten Cristall

Mary Davys

Sarah Dixon

Dorothea Dubois

Sarah Fyge Egerton

Jean Elliot

Maria and Harriet Falconar

Anne Finch

Martha Fowke

Anne Francis

Frances Greville

Constantia Grierson

Elizabeth Hands

Anne Hunter

Anne Ingram

Catherine Jemmat

Mary Jones

Isabella Kelly

Henrietta Knight

Mary Latter

Mary Leapor

Helen Leigh

Charlotte Lennox

Esther Lewis

Anne Lindsay

Janet Little

Mary Locke

Maria Logan

B–LL M–RT–N

Judith Madan

Mary Monck

Mary Wortley Montagu

Elizabeth Moody

Hannah More

Ann Murry

Henrietta O'Neill

Anne Penny

Laetitia Pilkington

Hester Lynch Piozzi

Annabella Plumptre

Priscilla Pointon

Ann Radcliffe

Clara Reeve

Mary Robinson

Elizabeth Singer Rowe

Mary Savage

Anna Sawyer

Mary Scott

Anna Seward

Frances Seymour

Charlotte Smith

Ellen Taylor

Elizabeth Teft

Ann Thomas

Elizabeth Thomas

Elizabeth Tollet

Miss W——

Hannah Wallis

Octavia Walsh

Jane West

Mary Whateley

Anna Williams

Helen Maria Williams

Anne Wilson

Jane Wiseman

Mehetabel Wesley Wright

Ann Yearsley

Etext

 * Lonsdale, Roger, ed. Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology. OUP, 1989. Open access from the Internet Archive.