London Magazine
Magazine.
1732–1783.
ed. Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber.
- Regions: London, Middlesex
- Middlesex
Beinecke Osborn c157
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous; perhaps Thomas Siw---, ca. 1750–1781.
Two sections: a poetry compilation and a commonplace miscellany (ca. 1813–1835)—this entry pertains only to the first section.
96 items.
Interest in women’s self-assertion, poems by Cambridge men, and Latin and Greek. Sources often identified as manuscripts or magazines.
Beinecke Osborn fc183
Title | A Collection of Pieces &ca in Prose and Vers [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
P. Simpson, 1790–1793.
90 poems.
Mostly eighteenth-century poetry, namely conduct poems, pastoral poems, poems about the poor, epitaphs, and epigrams.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9
Title | Miscellanies |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Thomas Phillibrown, 1740–1757.
Divided into sections according to odd and even numbered pages.
152 poems.
Very London oriented (Public affairs, local interest, celebrities).
Reflects a mid-century coterie centering around John Hawkins and Moses Browne.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 39
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1783.
102 poems.
Moralizing book with some lighter poems; many items sourced from "L—'s Miscellany," and many items from the 1760s.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 100
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1775–1810.
130 items.
Pieces from Garrick's memoir and other prose with a record of Wyvill-G—ll coterie's poetic exchanges in the middle.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 12
Title | Miscellany Poems 1728 |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
George Scott, 1728–1779.
Consecutive hands (George Scott is the second hand) seemingly linked by a Miss Verney who becomes Mrs. Bowes, then a Miss Bowes in part two.
99 items.
The first section contains quite a few poems by women; the second half sees a shift to copying newspaper items, many of which are attributed.