Childhood acquaintance of Hannah More; primary compiler of two manuscript verse miscellanies reflective of the Bristol-based Hannah More circle; sister of Elizabeth Blandford Brickenden and Honour Mary Blandford.

Childhood acquaintance of Hannah More and addressee of several of More’s poems featured in her sister, Anne Blandford’s, manuscript verse miscellanies; also a sister of Elizabeth Blandford Brickenden.

Childhood acquaintance of Hannah More; sister of Honour Mary Blandford, and Anne Blandford, the compiler of two Bristol-based manuscript verse miscellanies reflective of the Hannah More circle.

Member of the Bristol-based Hannah More circle.

Poet and translator; generally known for his poems about nature, especially “The Fables of Flora” (1771) and The Country Justice (1774–1777); his lyric and occasional poems were popular with miscellany compilers. 

Writer and philanthropist; leading Bluestocking and member of the London literary elite; her poetry centres around moral and religious subjects. 

Sister of Hannah More whose poetry features in one of Anne Blandford’s manuscript verse miscellanies.

Hymn writer and poet; daughter of Baptist minister William Steele, with whom she contributed to the Hannah More circle; also a member of the Towgood-Steele-Wakeford family network of nonconformist women writers.

Baptist minister; father of Anne Steele; member of Hannah More’s circle.