Poet and diplomat; contributor to The Examiner; popular with miscellany compilers.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of short sayings and items representing a patriotic British attitude; possibly connected to a regiment titled the Royal British Bowmen. 

Whig politician.

Early modern poet; known for his emblem book.

Probably a Harvard student; friend of Benjamin Church and major author in Church’s satirical manuscript verse miscellany. 

Author of multiple poems included in Frances Boscawen and Julia Evelyn’s manuscript verse miscellany, including the opening poem, “Ode on the Honble Mrs Frances Boscawen and Miss Julia Evelyn colecting and transcribing the following poems.”

Unidentified author of an epistle supposedly form a young woman to her brother at college.

Novelist; pioneer of Gothic fiction.

Possibly the compiler of her family’s manuscript verse miscellany of epitaphs. 

Possibly the compiler of his family’s manuscript verse miscellany of epitaphs.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of Alexander Pope poems.

Primary compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of religious verse later taken over by another hand.

West Indies-born poet, anthologist, naturalist, editor and travel writer; her poems feature in Beinecke Osborn d69, an anonymous nineteenth-century manuscript. Married Phillips Lloyd Fletcher a year before her death.

Member of unidentified three-person coterie represented in Beinecke Osborn d258; author of numerous poems about conduct/morality.

Member of the Blandford friends coterie

Cousin of Anne Dickinson whose poems on her uncle, snow, and epitaph on a favorite dog feature in her cousin’s manuscript.

Author and actress; many of her poems contain feminist themes.

Poet; associate of Wordsworth, Walter Scott, and Byron. 

Compiler of an anti-Catholic manuscript verse miscellany of devotional material. 

Wife of William Roscoe; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of women-centred poetry, which also features poems by her husband. 

Historian and patron of the arts; husband of Jane Griffies Roscoe, and major contributor to her and Thomas Binns’ manuscripts.

Poet and devotional writer; her religious poetry and elegy to her husband were popular with miscellany compilers.

Poet and playwright; Poet Laureate in 1715; first editor of Shakespeare’s works.