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Female poets in the ODNB:


 * Abdy [née Smith], Maria (c.1800–1867), poet
 * Ackland, Mary Kathleen Macrory- [pseud. Valentine Ackland] (1906–1969), poet
 * Acton, Eliza (1799–1859), writer on cookery and poet
 * Adam [Adams], Jean (1704–1765), poet
 * Adams, Sarah Flower (1805–1848), poet
 * Alexander [née Humphreys], Cecil Frances [Fanny] (1818–1895), hymn writer and poet
 * Angus, Marion Emily (1865–1946), poet
 * Armstrong [née Cobbe], Lucie (1851–1907), musician and writer on etiquette
 * Austen [née Wilson], Katherine (b. 1629, d. in or before 1683), diarist and poet
 * Baillie, Joanna (1762–1851), playwright and poet
 * Baillie, Marianne (1795?–1831), travel writer and versifier
 * Bannerman, Anne (1765–1829), poet
 * Barbauld [née Aikin], Anna Letitia [Anna Laetitia] (1743–1825), poet and essayist
 * Barber, Mary (c.1685–1755), poet
 * Barber [née Bowker], Mary Elizabeth (1818–1899), poet and natural historian
 * Barker, Jane (bap. 1652, d. 1732), poet and novelist
 * Barlow, Jane (1857–1917), poet and writer
 * Barnard [née Pye], Charlotte Alington [pseud. Claribel] (1830–1869), balladeer and poet
 * Bastwick, [née Poe] Susanna (d. in or after 1657), petitioner and possibly poet found in Bastwick, John (1595?–1654), religious controversialist and pamphleteer
 * Battier [née Fleming], Henrietta (c.1751–1813), poet and satirist
 * Beecham, (Helen) Audrey (1915–1989), poet and eccentric
 * Beer, Patricia (1919–1999), poet
 * Bellerby [née Parker], (Mary Eirene) Frances (1899–1975), poet and novelist
 * Bentley, Elizabeth (bap. 1767, d. 1839), poet
 * Bevan [née Shuttleworth], (Emma) Frances (1827–1909), translator and poet
 * Bevington [married name Guggenberger], Louisa Sarah (1845–1895), poet and anarchist
 * Blagden, Isabella (1816/17–1873), novelist and poet
 * Blamire, Susanna (1747–1794), poet
 * Blind [née Cohen], Mathilde (1841–1896), poet and biographer
 * Booth, Eva Selina Gore- (1870–1926), suffragist and poet
 * Borthwick, Jane Laurie (1813–1897), hymn writer and translator
 * Bowdler, Jane (1743–1784), poet and essayist
 * Boyd, Elizabeth [pseud. Louisa] (fl. 1727–1745), poet and novelist
 * Bradley, Katharine Harris (1846–1914), poet
 * Bradstreet [née Dudley], Anne (1612/13–1672), poet
 * Brand [née Ogle], Barbarina, Lady Dacre (1768–1854), poet and playwright
 * Brereton [née Hughes], Jane (1685–1740), poet
 * Brontë, Anne [pseud. Acton Bell] (1820–1849), novelist and poet
 * Brontë, Emily Jane [pseud. Ellis Bell] (1818–1848), novelist and poet
 * Browne [married name Gray], Mary Anne (1812–1845), poet
 * Browning [née Moulton Barrett], Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861), poet and writer
 * Bulmer [née Collinson], Agnes (1775–1836), writer and poet
 * Burney, Frances (1776–1828), governess and poet
 * Burrell [née Raymond], Sophia, Lady Burrell (1753–1802), poet and playwright
 * Cambridge [married name Cross], Ada (1844–1926), novelist and poet
 * Campbell, Dorothea Primrose (1792–1863), poet and novelist
 * Candler [née More], Ann (1740–1814), poet
 * Cannan [married name Slater], May Wedderburn (1893–1973), writer
 * Carey [née Jackson], Mary, Lady Carey (b. c.1609, d. in or after 1680), author of verse and autobiographical meditations
 * Carter, Elizabeth (1717–1806), poet, translator, and writer
 * Cave [married name Winscom], Jane (b. 1754/5, d. in or before 1813), poet
 * Celesia [née Mallet], Dorothea (bap. 1738, d. 1790), playwright and poet
 * Chalmers, Margaret (b. 1758), poet
 * Chamber, Anna [married name Anna Grenville-Temple, Countess Temple] (1709?–1777), poet
 * Chandler, Mary (1687–1745), poet
 * Chauhan [née Singh], Subhadra Kumari (1904–1948), poet, short-story writer, and political activist in India
 * Cheyne [née Cavendish], Lady Jane (1620/21–1669), poet and royalist noblewoman
 * Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710), poet and essayist
 * Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794), poet
 * Clive [née Wigley; later Meysey-Wigley], Caroline [known as Mrs Archer Clive; pseud. V.] (1801–1873), novelist and poet
 * Cobbold [née Knipe; other married name Clarke], Elizabeth (1764–1824), poet and artist in cut paper
 * Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth [pseud. Anodos] (1861–1907), poet and writer
 * Collier, Mary (1688?–1762), poet
 * Colling, Mary Maria (1804–1853), poet and domestic servant
 * Collins, An (fl. 1653), poet
 * Colquhoun, (Margaret) Ithell (1906–1988), painter and poet
 * Cook, Eliza (1812–1889), poet and journalist
 * Cooper, Edith Emma (1862–1913), found in Bradley, Katharine Harris (1846–1914), poet
 * Cooper [née Bransby], Maria Susanna (1737–1807), writer and poet
 * Cornford [née Darwin], Frances Crofts (1886–1960), poet
 * Cousin [née Cundell], Anne Ross (1824–1906), poet and hymn writer
 * Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743–1809), playwright and poet
 * Crewdson [née Fox], Jane (1808–1863), poet and hymn writer
 * Cristall, Ann Batten (bap. 1769, d. 1848), poet
 * Croker, Margaret Sarah (bap. 1773), poet and novelist
 * Cruickshank, Helen Burness (1886–1975), poet
 * Cunard, Nancy Clara (1896–1965), poet and political activist
 * Currie [née Lamb], Mary Montgomerie, Lady Currie [pseud. Violet Fane] (1843–1905), poet and writer
 * Cushing [née May; other married name Williams], Winifred Emma [pseud. Patience Strong] (1907–1990), author and poet
 * Custance, Olive Eleanor (1874–1944), found in Douglas, Lord Alfred Bruce (1870–1945), poet and biographer
 * D'Anvers [née Clarke], Alicia (bap. 1668, d. 1725), poet
 * Darling, Julia Rose (1956–2005), poet, playwright, and novelist
 * Davies, Margaret [Marged Dafydd] (c.1700–1785?), Welsh-language poet and copyist
 * Dehn, Olive Marie (1914–2007), found in Dehn, Paul Edward (1912–1976), writer and film critic
 * Dixon, Sarah (1671/2–1765), poet
 * Doolittle [married name Aldington], Hilda [H. D.] (1886–1961), poet and novelist
 * Doudney, Sarah (1841–1926), children's writer and hymn writer
 * Dowriche [née Edgcumbe], Anne (d. in or after 1613), poet and historian
 * Du Bois [née Annesley], Lady Dorothea (1728–1774), writer and poet
 * Duncombe [née Highmore], Susanna (1725–1812), artist and poet
 * Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670–1723), poet
 * Elliot, Jean [Jane] (1727–1805), poet
 * Elliott, Charlotte (1789–1871), poet and hymn writer
 * Fage, Mary (fl. 1637), poet
 * Fanshawe, Catherine Maria (1765–1834), poet
 * Fanthorpe, Ursula Askham (1929–2009), poet
 * Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme [née Elizabeth Graeme] (1737–1801), poet and letter writer in America
 * Finch [née Kingsmill], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), poet
 * Findlater, [née Borthwick] Sarah Laurie (1823–1907), found in Borthwick, Jane Laurie (1813–1897), hymn writer and translator
 * Finzi, Joyce Amy [Joy] (1907–1991), found in Finzi, Gerald Raphael (1901–1956), composer
 * Fletcher [née Dawson], Elizabeth [Eliza] (1770–1858), poet and autobiographer
 * Fleury, Maria de (fl. 1773–1791), religious controversialist and hymn writer
 * Francis [née Gittins], Ann (bap. 1738, d. 1800), classical scholar and poet
 * Fraser, Olive (1909–1977), poet
 * Furlong, Alice Maud Mary (1871–1946), poet
 * Garry [née Campbell], Flora Macdonald (1900–2000), broadcaster and poet
 * Gilbert, Ann (1782–1866), found in Taylor, Jane (1783–1824), children's writer
 * Goddard [née Egan], Mary (bap. 1717, d. 1752), poet and milliner
 * Godwin, Catherine Grace (1798–1845), poet and writer
 * Gomeldon [née Middleton], Jane (d. in or before 1780), poet and essayist
 * Graham, Janet (1723–1805), poet
 * Green, Eliza S. Craven (1802/3–1866), poet
 * Greenwell, Dorothy [Dora] (1821–1882), poet and essayist
 * Greville [née Macartney], Frances (1727?–1789), poet
 * Griffiths [née Thomas], Ann (bap. 1776, d. 1805), hymn writer in Welsh
 * Gyles, Margaret Alethea [known as Althea Gyles] (1868–1949), artist and poet
 * Ham, Elizabeth (1783–1859), poet and writer
 * Hamilton, Eliza Mary (1807–1851), poet
 * Hamilton [née Thomson], Janet (1795–1873), poet and essayist
 * Hands [née Herbert], Elizabeth (bap. 1746, d. 1815), poet
 * Harrison, Susannah (1752–1784), poet
 * Harvey, Margaret (1768–1858), poet
 * Havergal, Frances Ridley [pseuds. Sabrina, Zoide] (1836–1879), poet and hymn writer
 * Hawkins, Susanna (1787–1868), poet
 * Hemans [née Browne], Felicia Dorothea (1793–1835), poet
 * Hendriks, Rose Ellen (fl. 1845–1856), novelist and poet
 * Hepburn [née Harper], Edith Alice Mary [pseuds. Anna Wickham, John Oland] (1883–1947), poet
 * Heron, Mary (fl. 1786–1792), poet and writer
 * Highmore [née Hiller], Susanna (1689/90–1750), poet
 * Holford [married name Hodson], Margaret (bap. 1778, d. 1852), poet and translator
 * Holt [née Wiseman], Jane (fl. c.1682–1717), playwright and poet
 * Horovitz [née Hooker], Frances Margaret (1938–1983), poet and broadcaster
 * Hume, Anna (fl. 1644), poet
 * Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742/3–1821), poet
 * Hutchinson [née Apsley], Lucy (1620–1681), poet and biographer
 * Ingelow, Jean [pseud. Orris] (1820–1897), poet and writer
 * Inglis [née Murray; other married name Finlay], Margaret Maxwell (1774–1843), poet
 * Ingram [née Howard; other married name Douglas], Anne, Viscountess Irwin [Irvine] (c.1696–1764), poet
 * Irwin, Muriel Stuart [pseud. Muriel Stuart] (1885–1967), poet
 * James, Angharad (1677–1749), Welsh-language poet
 * Jenner, [née Rawlings] Kitty Lee (1853–1936), author and artist found in Jenner, Henry (1848–1934), librarian and promoter of the Cornish language
 * Jennings, Elizabeth Joan (1926–2001), poet
 * Jevon, Rachel (bap. 1627), poet
 * Jevons [née Roscoe], Mary Anne (1795–1845), poet
 * Johnston, Ellen (c.1835–1874?), power-loom weaver and poet
 * Jones, Mary (1707–1778), poet
 * Jowitt [née Crawford; other married name Glover], Jane (1770–1846), poet
 * Keary, Eliza Harriett (bap. 1827, d. 1918), poet and children's writer
 * Kelly [née Fordyce; other married name Hedgeland], Isabella (bap. 1759, d. 1857), poet and novelist
 * Kemp [née Marshall], Elizabeth [known as Lizzie Berry] (1847–1919), poet
 * Killigrew, Anne (1660–1685), poet and painter
 * King, Anne [married names Anne Dutton; Anne Howe, Lady Howe] (b. in or before 1621, d. 1684x1701), poet and literary muse
 * Knight [née St John], Henrietta, Lady Luxborough (1699–1756), poet and letter writer
 * Knowles [née Morris], Mary (1733–1807), poet
 * Knox [née Craig], Isabella [pseud. Isa] (1831–1903), poet and campaigner for women's rights
 * Landon [married name Maclean], Letitia Elizabeth [pseud. L. E. L.] (1802–1838), poet and writer
 * Lanier [née Bassano], Emilia (bap. 1569, d. 1645), poet
 * Layard, Nina Frances (1853–1935), poet and archaeologist
 * Leapor, Mary (1722–1746), poet
 * Le Fanu, Alicia (b. 1791, d. in or after 1844), novelist and poet found in Le Fanu, Philip (1735–1795), translator
 * Le Noir [née Smart], Elizabeth Anne (bap. 1754, d. 1841), poet and novelist
 * Levy, Amy Judith (1861–1889), writer and poet
 * Lewis [née Finkelstein], Naomi (1911–2009), poet and literary critic
 * Lickbarrow, Isabella (1784–1847), poet
 * Little [married name Richmond], Janet (1759–1813), poet
 * Locke [married name Mister], Mary (bap. 1768), poet and children's writer
 * Loy [formerly Lowy; married names Haweis, Lloyd], Mina Gertrude (1882–1966), poet and painter
 * Luke [née Thompson], Jemima (1813–1906), hymn writer
 * Lynch [née Foulks], Theodora Elizabeth (1812–1885), poet and novelist
 * Lyon [née L'Amy or Lammie], Agnes (1762–1840), poet
 * Mackellar [née Cameron], Mary (1834–1890), poet
 * Maclehose [née Craig], Agnes (1758–1841), letter writer and poet
 * MacManus [née Johnston], Anna Isabel [pseud. Ethna Carbery] (1866–1902), poet and journalist
 * MacPherson, Mary [known as Màiri Mhór nan Òran, Màiri Nighean Ian Bhain] (1821–1898), poet
 * Madan [née Cowper], Judith (1702–1781), gentlewoman and poet
 * Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh [Mary MacLeod] (c.1615–c.1707), Scottish Gaelic poet
 * Marie [Marie de France] (fl. c.1180–c.1189), poet
 * Masters, Mary (fl. 1733–1755), poet and letter-writer
 * Mathews [née Strong], Eliza Kirkham (1772–1802), novelist and poet
 * Menken, Adah Isaacs (1835?–1868), actress and poet
 * Mew, Charlotte Mary (1869–1928), poet
 * Meynell [née Thompson], Alice Christiana Gertrude (1847–1922), poet and journalist
 * Middleton, Elizabeth (supp. fl. 1637), supposed poet
 * Miles [née Hatfield], Sibella Elizabeth (bap. 1800, d. 1882), poet
 * Miller [née Riggs], Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781), poet and salon hostess
 * Milne [née Ross], Christian (bap. 1772, d. in or after 1816), poet
 * Mirrlees, (Helen) Hope (1887–1978), writer and poet
 * Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651?–1696), poet
 * Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?–1715), poet and translator
 * Moulsworth, Martha (1577–1646), poet
 * Naden, Constance Caroline Woodhill (1858–1889), poet and philosopher
 * Naidu [née Chattopadhyay], Sarojini (1879–1949), politician and poet
 * NicDhòmhnaill [MacDonald], Sìleas [Sìleas nighean Mhic Raghnaill] (c.1660–c.1729), Scottish Gaelic poet
 * Ní Chonaill [married names O'Connor, Ó Laoghaire], Eibhlín Dhubh [Eileen O'Connell; known as Eibhlín Dubh] (b. c.1743, d. in or after 1791), poet
 * Nicolson [née Cory], Adela Florence [pseud. Laurence Hope] (1865–1904), poet
 * Nunn, Marianne (1778–1847), found in Nunn family (per. c.1815–1847), hymn writers
 * O'Doherty [née Kelly], Mary Anne [called Eva of The Nation] (1830–1910), poet
 * O'Keeffe, Adelaide (1776–1865), poet and novelist
 * O'Leary, Ellen (1831–1889), poet and Irish nationalist
 * O'Neill [née Boyle], Henrietta (1757/8–1793), poet and patron of the arts
 * Opie [née Alderson], Amelia (1769–1853), novelist and poet
 * Ortiz, Elisabeth Lambert [née Elisabeth Lambert] (1915–2003), writer on cookery and poet
 * Oxlie, Mary (fl. 1616), poet
 * Pagan, Isobel (1741/2–1821), poet
 * Palmer, Julia (fl. 1664–1673), poet
 * Parnell, Fanny Isabel (1848–1882), Irish nationalist and poet
 * Parson [née Rooker], Elizabeth (1812–1873), hymn writer
 * Peckard [née Ferrar], Martha (1729–1805), poet
 * Pennington, Elizabeth (1732–1759), poet
 * Penny [née Hughes; other married name Christian], Anne (bap. 1729, d. 1780/1784), poet
 * Pennyman [née Angier], Margaret (bap. 1685, d. 1733), poet
 * Peters [née Bowly], Mary (1813–1856), hymn writer
 * Pfeiffer [née Davis], Emily Jane (1827–1890), poet
 * Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632–1664), poet
 * Picken, Joanna Belfrage [pseud. Alpha] (1798–1859), poet and teacher
 * Piers [née Roydon], Sarah, Lady Piers (d. 1719), poet and literary patron
 * Pilkington [née van Lewen], Laetitia (c.1709–1750), poet and autobiographer
 * Pitter, Ruth (1897–1992), poet and craftswoman
 * Plath [married name Hughes], Sylvia (1932–1963), poet and writer
 * Pollard [née Gladstone], Margaret Steuart (1904–1996), Cornish poet
 * Pope, Jessie (1868–1941), poet and writer
 * Porden [married name Franklin], Eleanor Anne (1795–1825), poet
 * Procter, Adelaide Anne [pseud. Mary Berwick] (1825–1864), poet and women's activist
 * Pulter [née Ley], Lady Hester (1595/6–1678), poet
 * Raine, Kathleen Jessie (1908–2003), poet and literary scholar
 * Rees, Sarah Jane [pseud. Cranogwen] (1839–1916), sailor, schoolmistress, and poet
 * Reeve, Clara (1729–1807), novelist and poet
 * Reynolds, Frances [Fanny] (1729–1807), painter, poet, and writer on art
 * Richardson [née Scott], Catherine Eliza (1777–1853), poet and novelist
 * Richardson [née Smith], Charlotte (1775–1825), poet
 * Richardson, Charlotte Caroline (1796–1854), poet and novelist
 * Riddell [née Woodley], Maria (1772–1808), poet
 * Ridler, Anne Barbara [née Bradby] (1912–2001), poet and writer
 * Rolls [née Hillary], Mary (1781/2–1835), poet
 * Ross [née McKittrick; other married name Rodgers], Anna Margaret [Amanda] (1860–1939), novelist and poet
 * Rossa, Mary Jane O'Donovan [née Mary Jane Irwin] (1845–1916), Irish nationalist and poet
 * Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830–1894), poet
 * Rowden [married name de St Quentin], Frances Arabella (1774–1840?), schoolmistress and poet
 * Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674–1737), poet and devotional writer
 * Sackville, Lady Margaret (1881–1963), poet and children's writer
 * Saffery, Maria Grace (bap. 1772?, d. 1858), hymn writer and poet
 * Sandbach [née Roscoe], Margaret (1812–1852), poet and novelist
 * Sansom [née Fowke], Martha (1689–1736), poet
 * Scot [née Rutherford], Elizabeth (1729–1789), poet
 * Scott [née Spottiswoode], Alicia Anne (1810–1900), poet
 * Scott [married names Williams, Smith], Elizabeth (1707/8–1776), hymn writer
 * Scott [married name Taylor], Mary (1751/2–1793), poet
 * Scovell, Edith Joy (1907–1999), poet
 * Seward, Anna [called the Swan of Lichfield] (1742–1809), poet and correspondent
 * Sewell [née Wright], Mary (1797–1884), writer and poet
 * Seymour [née Thynne], Frances, duchess of Somerset (1699–1754), poet and letter writer
 * Shelton, Mary [married names Mary Heveningham, Lady Heveningham; Mary Appleyard] (1510x15–1570/71), contributor to manuscript miscellany
 * Shore, Louisa Catherine (1824–1895), poet and writer
 * Shorter [née Sigerson], Dora Mary (1866–1918), poet and journalist
 * Simpson [née Bell], Jane Cross (1811–1886), hymn writer
 * Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa (1887–1964), poet and biographer
 * Skene [née Gillespie], Lilias [Lillias Skein] (1626/7–1697), Quaker preacher and poet
 * Slater, Lydia Elisabeth Leonidovna Pasternak (1902–1989), biochemist, poet, and translator
 * Smedley, Menella Bute (1820–1877), poet and novelist
 * Smith [née Turner], Charlotte (1749–1806), poet and novelist
 * Smith, Florence Margaret [Stevie] (1902–1971), poet and novelist
 * Smythies, Harriette Maria Gordon (1813?–1883), poet and novelist
 * Southey, Caroline Anne Bowles (1786–1854), poet and writer
 * Southwell [née Harris], Anne, Lady Southwell (bap. 1574, d. 1636), poet
 * Spark [née Camberg], Dame Muriel Sarah (1918–2006), poet and novelist
 * Speght [married name Procter], Rachel (b. 1597?, d. in or before 1661?), polemicist and poet
 * Stafford [née Devereux; other married name Shirley], Lady Dorothy (1600–1636), literary patron and poet
 * Steele, Anne (1717–1778), hymn writer and poet
 * Stewart [née Cranstoun], Helen D'Arcy (1765–1838), poet
 * Symon, Mary (1863–1938), poet
 * Tatlock, Eleanor (fl. 1799–1811), poet
 * Taylor, Rachel Annand [née Rachel Annand] (1876–1960), poet and literary scholar
 * Teft, Elizabeth (bap. 1723), poet
 * Tennant, [married names Pitt-Rivers, Graham, Rumbold] Pauline Laetitia, Lady Rumbold (1927–2008), actress and poet found in Baddeley, Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton (1906–1986), actress
 * Thimelby [née Aston], Gertrude (1617–1668), poet
 * Thomas, Elizabeth (1675–1731), poet
 * Thomas [née Wolferstan], Elizabeth (1770/71–1855), novelist and poet
 * Tighe [née Blachford], Mary (1772–1810), poet
 * Tindal [née Harrison], Henrietta Euphemia (bap. 1817, d. 1879), poet and novelist
 * Tinsley [née Turner], Annie (1808–1885), novelist and poet
 * Tollet, Elizabeth (1694–1754), poet
 * Tripp, Kathleen [née Kathe Loewenthal; other married name Kathe Dampf; pseud. Karen Gershon] (1923–1993), poet and writer
 * Tynan [married name Hinkson], Katharine (1859–1931), poet and novelist
 * Vardill [married name Niven], Anna Jane (1781–1852), poet
 * Veley, Margaret (1843–1887), novelist and poet
 * Walsh, Octavia (bap. 1677, d. 1706), poet
 * Wardlaw [née Halket], Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw (1677–1727), poet
 * Waring, Anna Letitia (1823–1910), poet
 * Watson, Rosamund Marriott [née Rosamund Ball; pseuds. Graham R. Tomson, R. Armytage] (1860–1911), poet and journalist
 * Webb [née Meredith], Mary Gladys (1881–1927), novelist and poet
 * Webster [née Davies], (Julia) Augusta [pseud. Cecil Home] (1837–1894), poet
 * Wellesley [née Ashton], Dorothy Violet, duchess of Wellington (1889–1956), poet
 * West [née Iliffe], Jane (1758–1852), writer and poet
 * Weston, Elizabeth Jane (bap. 1581?, d. 1612), Latin poet
 * Wharton [née Lee], Anne (1659–1685), poet
 * Whateley [married name Darwall], Mary (bap. 1738, d. 1825), poet
 * Wheatley [married name Peters], Phillis (c.1753–1784), poet
 * Whitney, Isabella (fl. 1566–1573), poet
 * Williams, Anna (1706–1783), poet and companion of Samuel Johnson
 * Williams, Sarah [pseud. Sadie] (1837/8–1868), poet and novelist
 * Wilson [née Harries], Margaret [known as Mrs Cornwell Baron Wilson] (1797–1846), poet
 * Winkworth, Catherine (1827–1878), translator of hymns
 * Woods [née Bradley], Margaret Louisa [Daisy] (1855–1945), poet and author
 * Wortley, Lady Emmeline Charlotte Elizabeth Stuart- [née Lady Emmeline Charlotte Elizabeth Manners] (1806–1855), poet and travel writer
 * Wright [née Wesley], Mehetabel [Hetty] (1697–1750), poet
 * Yearsley [née Cromartie], Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806), poet and writer
 * Young, Ella (1867–1956), poet and mythographer