Antiquary; nineteenth-century owner of Rev. Thomas Austen’s Houghton MS Eng 611.

Born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, and educated at Ackworth School, a Quaker establishment where she probably compiled a manuscript verse miscellany of poetry on moral and religious themes; later married Joseph Hulley in Edensor and known for the quality of her needlework.

Lyrical poet; known for her songs and ballads; author of “Death Song of the Cherokee Indian,” which was popular with compilers of manuscript verse miscellanies. 

Unidentified poet included in the anonymous manuscript verse miscellany Folger MS W.a.119; his poems are titled thematically, and are centred around the passions (eg. “Vanity,” “Cowardice,” “Celibacy,” etc.). 

Clergyman of Catton Norfolk; author of three poems in his friend William Heath Marsh’s manuscript verse miscellany: “Stranger,” “William and Mary Scene Cromer 1802,” and a tribute to the memory of his mother, Elizabeth Ives.

Writer and poet; author of popular miscellany poem, "Castle-Building; An Elegy."

Author and politician; compiler of two manuscript verse miscellanies. 

Poet and playwright; generally considered a derivative writer by his contemporaries. 

Barrister and Member of Parliament; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of poems and Shakespeare plays.

Author and lexicographer; famous man of letters, friend of Hester Thrale Piozzi, James Boswell, Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, and Charlotte Lennox; author of The Rambler (1750–1752), A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland (1775), and Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–1781).

Orientalist and judge; one of the first to propound an expressive theory of poetry, valorising expression over description or imitation; known as a poet for Caissa (1763), a poem about chess.

Poet and playwright who popularised the comedy of humours.

Bishop of Bath and Wells and nonjuror; one of the fathers of modern English hymnody; author of A Manual of Prayer (ca. 1665). 

Compiler of a Suffolk manuscript verse miscellany of satirical items, many about celebrities.

Early modern poet and bishop of Chichester; known for his elegies and psalms.

Writer; known for his humorous, political, and satirical poetry. 

Initial to which multiple items in Beinecke Osborn d69 are attributed. 

Poet and writer; her work is considered both Romantic and post-Romantic.

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. 

Cousin of Philip Yorke; contributor to Athenian Letters. 

Author and Quaker; famous for poems on domestic, religious, and local (Irish) subjects. 

Dedicatee of Stephen Simpson’s manuscript verse miscellany, which was seemingly intended as a courtship gift. 

Labouring-class poet; author of “Mira's Will,” which appears in multiple manuscript verse miscellanies.

Half-sister and rumoured lover of George Lord Byron; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany full of poems about celebrities and poems by Byron.