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

Poet and politician; generally known for satirical, political, and religious poetry. 

Poet and garden designer; author of an elegy on his wife that was popular with miscellany compilers.

Irish compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany created when she was a young lady, with an interest in anti-slavery poems and poems about the sufferings of Ireland. 

Biblical and classical scholar and translator; his poems and versified Psalms feature in some manuscripts. 

Member of the Blandford friends coterie

Poet and teacher; author of a Jacobite poem in opposition to Addison's interpretation of Cato that commonly appears in manuscript verse miscellanies.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of largely original poetry written under pseudonyms. 

Member of the Rose Tavern club, presumably related to its leader, Richard Miller. 

Publisher; leader of the Rose Tavern club.

Compiler of a light-hearted manuscript verse miscellany that begins with a drinking song and ends with a poem admonishing Queen Anne from a royalist perspective.

Poet and polemicist; excerpts from his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), among other verses, feature in some manuscript verse miscellanies.

Poet and translator; author of a deathbed poem to her husband very popular with miscellany compilers. This attribution of the poem, after several centuries of misattribution to Mary Molesworth Monck, is discussed in Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia, eds., British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), p. 388 n. 60.

British peer and politician; subject of an anonymous poem addressed to Henry Fox on the subject of his marriage to Isabella Montagu, Dowager Duchess of Manchester.

Politician; friend of Thomas Gray and William Mason; his poems feature in his cousin George Montagu’s manuscript verse miscellany.

English army officer and naturalist; creator of the Ornithological Dictionary (1802) and correspondent of Horace Walpole; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany largely made up of poems by himself, his cousin Frederick Montagu, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Subject of an anonymous poem addressed to Henry Fox on the subject of her marriage to the politician Edward Hussey Montagu.

Writer and wit; chiefly remembered for her letters and advocacy for the introduction of smallpox inoculation in Britain; her poetry features in several manuscripts. 

Clergyman and religious poet whose “Soliloquy written in a country Church-Yard” appears in multiple manuscript verse miscellanies.

Poet; celebrated for his Irish Melodies (1807–1834).  

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.

Author of a poem about women’s role in marriage, and addressee of Thomas Hervey’s response to the same. 

Unidentified poet included in Lady Elizabeth Loftus’ manuscript verse miscellany.