Playwright and politician; known for plays such as The Rivals and The School for Scandal; prominent Whig; his poetry circulated among both the Tickell family coterie, with whom he had familial ties through his wife Elizabeth Linley Sheridan, and the Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network, with whom he had social ties. 

Playwright and poet.

Early modern poet and literary patron.

Compiler of Beinecke Osborn fc183.

Weaver; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany he gave to his future wife, Sarah Leaper. 

Possibly the compiler of Beinecke Osborn c157 because his name is written on the front cover.

Poet and novelist; popular with miscellany compilers, particularly for her sonnets.

Members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire; consecutive compilers of a miscellany ending with Captain Thomas Smyth in the early nineteenth-century.

Historian; tutor to Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s son; author of English Lyrics, which ran through five editions. 

Poet; author of “If this fair rose offend thy sight…,” a poem supposedly written by a man from the House of York to his beloved, the daughter of the Duke of Somerset. 

Poet and reviewer of the Romantic school.

Poet and humorist; member of the Whig set of Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Poet and administrator in Ireland; best known for the epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596).

Churchman and writer; best known for his historical accounts, including “The Plague of Athens,” which features in an anonymous mid-century manuscript verse miscellany.

Mother of Mary Boys and grandmother of Mary Sankey; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of poems, enigmas, and riddles.

Politician, diplomatist, and wit; author of satirical and political verses popular with miscellany compilers. 

English-born Loyalist poet who moved to Philadelphia and became a satirist of the patriots; his poem, “An historical ballad of the proceedings of a town meeting at Philadelphia, May 24 & 25, 1779” features in Joshua Francis Fisher’s manuscript verse miscellany.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany for Mary Arnold’s educational use. 

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.

Member of the Blandford friends coterie

Diplomatist; as a poet, he was known for his translations of the classics, such as Juvenal, and for his political verses.

Unidentified author of the ode “On seeing a scull,” which was published in The Gentleman’s Magazine and became very popular with manuscript verse miscellany compilers.

Philosopher; a member of Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury’s circle with his second wife, Helen D’Arcy Stewart.