People
Individuals playing a role in at least one manuscript miscellany or poem
Displaying 481–496 people out of 496 total
John Wolcot
- c1738
- 1819
Poet and satirist; known for anti-royalist and celebrity satires; very popular with miscellany compilers.
Eliza Woolley
Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of love poetry.
Anne Woolfe
Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of witty verse.
William Wordsworth
- 1770
- 1850
Poet; founder of the Romantic movement in England with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a fellow member of the Lake Poets.
William Worth
- 1677
- 1742
Church of England clergyman and classical scholar; primary compiler of and major author in Beinecke Osborn c110, an English and Latin manuscript verse miscellany.
Daniel Wray
- 1701
- 1783
Coteries | Daniel Wray circle, and Yorke-Grey coterie |
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Antiquary; friend of Philip Yorke and contributor to the Athenian Letters under the signature “W.”
J. Wright
Compiler of a mixed, probably Jacobite manuscript verse miscellany apparently owned and used by William Bromley shortly after its composition.
Mehetabel Wesley Wright
- 1697
- 1750
Poet; sister of John and Charles Wesley, leaders of the Methodist movement.
Mrs. C. Wyvill
Coteries | Wyvill-G—ll coterie |
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Possibly first name Catherine; contributor to a series of poetic exchanges associated with the Wyvill-G—ll coteire featured in an anonymous manuscript miscellany; author of “Verses addressed to Mrs W[yvi]ll,” “To the Memory of Mr Howard,” “To be presented to Miss Wyvill the day she compleats her sixth year by her aunt and godmother,” and “Verses in Answer to those on Sensibility.”
Thomas Yalden
- 1670
- 1736
Poet and Church of England clergyman; traslator of classics and author of Pindaric poems such as A Hymn to Darkness.
Ann Cromartie Yearsley
- c1753
- 1806
Poet and writer; milk-seller and Hannah More’s protégé; a rural poet, whose intense self-analyses often merge with religious and philosophical speculation.
Charles Yorke
- 1722
- 1770
Coteries | Yorke-Grey coterie |
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Lord Chancellor; brother of Philip Yorke, second earl of Hardwicke, with whom he initiated and contributed to the Athenian Letters.
Jemima Campbell Yorke
- 1722
- 1797
Coteries | Yorke-Grey coterie |
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Letter writer; wife of Philip Yorke, second earl of Hardwicke; centre of the Yorke-Grey coterie.
Margaret Yorke
Coteries | Yorke-Grey coterie |
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Philip Yorke’s sister (married name Heathcote); member of the Yorke-Grey coterie.
Philip Yorke
- 1720
- 1790
Coteries | Yorke-Grey coterie |
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Politician and writer; brother of Charles Yorke, husband of Jemima Campbell Yorke; centre of the Yorke-Grey coterie and chief creator of the Athenian Letters (1741-43); owner and primary compiler of Beinecke Osborn c135.
Edward Young
- 1683
- 1765
Writer; best remembered for the long blank verse poem Night-Thoughts (1742–1745).