People
Individuals playing a role in at least one manuscript miscellany or poem
Displaying 433–456 people out of 497 total
Thomas Tickell
- 1685
- 1740
Poet and government official; grandfather of Richard Tickell, of the Tickell family coterie.
Edward Tighe
- 1740
- 1801
Coteries | Tighe family, and Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Uncle of Mary Blanchford Tighe.
Henry Tighe
- 1768
- 1836
Coteries | Tighe family |
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Irish husband of Mary Blanchford Tighe; brother of Catherine Tighe Hamilton and William Tighe (1766–1816).
Mary Blachford Tighe
- 1772
- 1810
Coteries | Tighe family, and Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Poet and hostess of a salon in Ireland; known for her six-canto allegorical poem Psyche (1805).
William Tighe (1738–1784)
- 1738
- 1784
Coteries | Tighe family |
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Father of William Tighe (1766–1816) and Henry Tighe; uncle and father-in-law of Mary Blanchford Tighe.
William Tighe (1766–1816)
- 1766
- 1816
Coteries | Tighe family |
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Politician, topographer, and landowner; son of William Tighe (1738–1782) and brother of Henry Tighe; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany which consists mainly of his original work.
Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
- 1763
- 1828
Novelist; author of two lyric poems featured in Eliza Chapman’s manuscript verse miscellany, Bodleian MS Mont. e. 14.
Melesina Chenevix Trench
- 1768
- 1827
Diarist and letter-writer; author of an occasional poem on leaving Llangollen that was copied in Folger MS M.a. 163 before it first appeared in print.
Thomas Trigg
Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of blank verse extracts from Shakespeare plays and Latin poetry.
William Tunstall
- 1717
Adherent of the Old Pretender and a poet who appears in the Smyth family’s manuscript verse miscellany.
C. A. Venn
Poet whose sentimental poems feature in the anonymous manuscript Beinecke Osborn d226; potentially also one of the copyists.
Edward Venn
Poet whose work features in the anonymous manuscript Beinecke Osborn d226; potentially also one of the copyists.
A.T.W.
- 1815
Possibly Anne Wilmersfield of Heaton Hall, Yorkshire, wife of John Wilmersfield (or Wilmer Field), daughter of Robert Wharton (later Wharton-Middleton) of Old Park, Country Durham, and niece to Richard Wharton, MP for Durham and Secretary of the Treasury, who is featured in the book compiled by A.T.W.
W.
Initial to which multiple items in Beinecke Osborn d69 are attributed.
J.W.
Initials to which four poems in Anne Woolfe’s manuscript verse miscellany are attributed: “On the day of judgment,” “On love,” “The vanity of man in the similitude of a bubble,” and “On death."
John Waite
Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of lyrics, fables, and occasional poems.
Hannah Towgood Wakeford
- 1725
- 1746
Coteries | Towgood-Steele-Wakeford family |
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Nonconformist poet; Joseph Wakeford’s first wife; the primary author (under the pseudonym “Amynta”) of an anonymous manuscript verse miscellany of religious hymns and poems on friendship.
Joseph Wakeford, Jr.
- 1719
- 1785
Coteries | Towgood-Steele-Wakeford family |
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Nonconformist linen-draper and banker; married to Hannah Towgood Wakeford, whose writings he circulated posthumously and prepared for publication, with the assistance of his second wife, Mary Steele Wakeford.
Edmund Waller
- 1606
- 1687
Poet and politician; popular with miscellany compilers; primarily wrote love poems and political poems.
Sophia Wallis
Early nineteenth-century owner of the anonymous manuscript Bodleian MS Eng. Poet. e. 18.
Horace Walpole
- 1717
- 1797
Author, politician, and patron of the arts; known as the author of the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and for his Letters.