Actor and playwright; popular with miscellany compilers both as a subject of poetry and as a writer. 

Physician and poet; three of his poems on public affairs appear in Bodleian MS Mont. e. 13.

Poet and playwright; member of the Scriblerus Club.

Compiler of a Norfolk manuscript verse miscellany largely made up of humorous pieces.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of poems on women, death, friendship, and love, which features her own poetry. 

Author of an epitaph ("Here lies Father & Mother, & Sister and I...") which features in multiple manuscripts.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany which features love and descriptive poems.

Politician and writer.

Writer and translator; known for The Spiritual Quixote (1773), a satire on John Wesley and Methodism; his poetry appeared in Robert Dodsley’s collections.

A woman who kept a pottery shop in Chester; subject of an epitaph that appears in multiple manuscript verse miscellanies.

Poet and literary scholar; best known for An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard which was very popular with miscellany compilers. 

Minister and tutor; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of his own verses and translations.

Plantation and slave owner; compiler of Huntington Stowe Vol. III. 

Poet; mother of Frances Anne Crewe; best known for the poem “A Prayer for Indifference,” which was popular with miscellany compilers.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of poems about love and women, with some epitaphs.

Philadelphia Quaker poet who championed the resistance of American colonists to British forces during the American Revolution; believed to be the author of an “Inscription on a curious Stove in the Form of an Urn, contrived in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising from the Fire; invented by Dr. Franklin,” which appeared in Benjamin Franklin’s Memoirs.

Unidentified poet and translator featured in Beinecke Osborn d233; potentially the compiler of the same.

Sister-in-law of Mary Blanchford Tighe, and member of her family coterie. 

Novelist and essayist; proto-feminist.

Author of a poem to her friend Miss Duck about her abiding interest in dramatist Edward Moore, whom she later married.

Poet and Jacobite army officer; known for lyrcis, love songs, and the Jacobite poetry.

Member of the Bristol-based Hannah More circle.