Poet; contributor to the Bath Journal and Gentleman’s Magazine; author of popular miscellany poem "A Young Lady's Advice to One Lately Married."

Novelist and playwright; known for his Gothic novel The Monk (1796). 

Linguist and poet; friend of Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury and contributor to her manuscript, Huntington MS 29165. 

Later owner of the manuscript verse miscellany associated with the Kidlington coterie.

Composer and author; brother of Mary Linley Tickell. 

Church of England clergyman and poet; known for a humorous Eton College poem and “On a Spider,” both of which were reprinted in Robert Dodsley’s popular anthology, A Collection of Poems (1748–1758).

Compiler of a short manuscript verse miscellany of lighthearted poems by herself and members of her family. 

Relative of Elizabeth Townshend Loftus, whose work features in her manuscript verse miscellany.

Writer and politician whose love poems and occasional poetry were popular with miscellany compilers; influential patron of James Thomson and other writers; inner member of Elizabeth Montagu’s Bluestocking coterie.

Author of three poems in the anonymous manuscript verse miscellany,Beinecke Osborn c546; two on, respectively, Mr. and Mrs. B, and one “On the capture of de Winter the Dutch admiral October 11th 1797.” 

Unidentified author of poems in Richard Porson’s miscellany.

Recipient of her friend Anne Butler’s manuscript verse miscellany.

Husband of Judith Cowper Madan and thus the patriarch of the poetical Madan-Maitland family.

Gentlewoman and poet; matriarch of the poetical Madan-Maitland family; her poems “Written by a youthful Lady in a young Gentleman's Coke upon Littleton,” and “Abelard to Eloisa” were popular with miscellany compilers.

Church of England clergyman, poet, and advocate of polygamy; son of Judith Cowper Madan.

Bishop of Peterborough and poet; son of Judith Cowper Madan.

A poet and Penelope Madan Maitland’s daughter; a third-generation member of the Madan-Maitland family coterie.

Penelope Madan Maitland’s daughter and granddaughter of Judith Cowper Madan. Known as a poet within her family network.

Judith Cowper Madan’s daughter; married to General Alexander Maitland, Colonel of the 49th Regiment; mother of Penelope Judith Maitland. Occasional writer and Methodist.

Compiler of a Yorkshire manuscript verse miscellany of serious poems, with an interest in local elites.

Clergyman and compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of original and copied poetry on various topics.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of popular songs which possibly circulated among a group of friends.

Owner of a manuscript verse miscellany of secular and religious verse; possibly also its compiler.