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.

This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)

Poets

See also

• List of 18th-century British working-class writers
• List of biographical dictionaries of women writers in English
• List of early-modern British women novelists
• List of early-modern British women playwrights
• List of female poets
• List of feminist poets
• List of poets
• List of women rhetoricians
• List of women writers
• Lists of writers
• Oxford period poetry anthologies
• Women Writers Project
• Women's writing (literary category)

References

Resources

• 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)

External links

• Bibliography of Early Modern Women Writers That Are In Print
• 17th Century Women Poets 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.
• List of biographical dictionaries 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.
• Women Romantic-Era Writers
• The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online