Poet; influential Edinburgh hostess; known as a poet for simple and understated verses; member of Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury’s circle with her husband, Dugald Stewart. 

Portsmouth compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany; supporter of the Opposition in the 1730s–40s.

Presbyterian minister and religious controversialist; author of the elegy “Hark! my gay friend, that solemn toll…” which was very popular with miscellany compilers.

Somehow connected to Mr Woodbridge Academy; compiler of an educational manuscript verse miscellany which ends with a poem on the death of her brother, Isaac Story.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of political satire.

Writer and dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin; his satirical poetry was popular with miscellany compilers, particularly “Description of a City Shower” (1710). 

Unidentified poet; author of three poems in William Heath Marsh’s manuscript verse miscellany: “To Memory,” “The Flower Girl’s Cry,” and “The Hare-Bell.”

Initials to which multiple poems in Catherine Springett’s manuscript verse miscellany are attributed.

Added the last three poems to Mary Tadwell’s three-volume manuscript verse miscellany; probably her husband or son or a relation by marriage, given the apparent erasure of her original last name in the first volume and its replacement by “Tadwell.”

Primary compiler of a manuscript miscellany of riddles, acrostics, songs, and country-city theme poems, which was later completed by John Watson Tadwell, who may have been her husband or son.

Poet, playwright, and translator.

Compiler of Beinecke Osborn c82.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of satirical, sentimental, and elegiac poems and prose.

South Weald amateur poet; compiler of and contributor to a manuscript verse miscellany of miscellaneous English and Latin poetry, including Jacobite contents.

Reviewer and translator; notable supporter and translator of German romantic literature.

Poet and amateur naturalist; author of multiple poems which were popular with miscellany compilers, including “Lock’d in the arms of balmy sleep…” which is often misattributed to Bishop Lowth.

Unidentified author of four poems about birds featured in the third volume of Thomas Binns’ manuscript verse miscellany.

Poet; best known for his poem Sickness (1746), which discusses various illnesses including melancholy, fever, consumption, and variola.

Poet; wrote The Seasons and the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany structured according to the narrative of her life, and almost entirely made up of her original poetry.

Unidentified compiler of the Tickell family manuscript verse miscellany.

Singer; wife of Richard Tickell and sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s wife Elizabeth Linley Sheridan. 

Playwright and satirist; husband of Mary Linley and brother-in-law of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.