Musician and author; father of Frances Burney D’Arblay, Charles Burney, and Charlotte Burney Francis Broome; friend of Samuel Johnson, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Edmund Burke. 

Anglican archdeacon; son of Charles Burney (1757–1817), grandson of Charles Burney (1726–1814); compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of love poems and occasional verse.

Writer; most famous for her novels, memoir of her father, Charles Burney (1726–1814), and posthumously published journals; features prominently in the manuscript verse miscellany of her sister, Charlotte Burney Francis Broome. 

Scottish poet; regarded as a pioneer of Romantic poetry; popular with miscellany compilers.

Centre of the Burroughs-Crowfoot circle, possibly located in Norfolk; possibly the compiler of Beinecke Osborn c90, which features the group’s original work.

Novelist and diarist; famous for her anonymously published court diary Diary illustrative of the Times of George IV; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany that reflects her life in Edinburgh before 1810.

Primary compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of elegies, epitaphs, and other poems. 

Elder of the two Ladies of Llangollen, whose unconventional relationship and lifestyle made them celebrities and a source of inspiration to the Romantic poets. 

Probably a Harvard alumus; major author in Benjamin Church’s manuscript verse miscellany, which centres around a group of Harvard students.

Poet and creator of a system of shorthand; most famous as a writer of Anglican hymns.

Poet; one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, popular with contemporary miscellany compilers.

Attributed author of a satirical poem called “Verses on receiving a Turkey and Sausages from Mrs. Mattocks, by a young Gentleman in the fifths Form at Westminster School.” 

Daughter of William, third Earl of Essex, and wife of John Forbes (1714–1796); correspondent of Thomas Birch (his correspondence at the British Library confirmsher interest in literature and also her handwriting); compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany associated with the Yorke-Grey coterie.

Member of the Blandford friends coterie

Poet, translator, and writer; leading member of the Bluestocking Circle; her religious poetry was very popular with miscellany compilers. 

English inventor and poet.

Political hostess; leading member of the Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network.

Lay preacher and Moravian minister; his hymns appear in Houghton MS Eng 614. 

Poet; most famous for A Description of Bath (1733).

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany which contains poems by “Scriblerus,” apparently her suitor. 

Poet; died by suicide at 17 years old; influence on Romantic poets.

Courtier and bigamist; author of a poetic petition to the Pope that was popular with miscellany compilers.

Poet and essayist; famous proto-feminist. 

Graduated from Harvard College in 1754; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of satirical poems by a group of Harvard students. A physician who became Director General of the American revolutionary army, in 1775 he was convicted of "criminal correspondence" with the British and imprisoned, then banished in 1778.