Devon
Beinecke Osborn c153
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1731-1760 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1746.
37 items, 23 poems.
Largely the work of Hannah Wakeford ("Amynta"). Begins with seven letters from Amynta to Aurelia followed by religious hymns and poems, enigmas, and poems on friendship and solitude.
Reflects the work of the Towgood-Steele-Wakeford family.
Beinecke Osborn c376
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Charles Earle, ca. 1750–1770.
96 items.
Original epitaphs, occasional poetry, prayers, and letters.
Beinecke Osborn fd32
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, 1811–1818.
Over 100 poems.
Largely poems on nationalistic subjects, others focused on serious and sentimental subjects like nature, death, friendship, and religion.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 125
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1740s.
73 poems.
Seemingly a woman’s book with themes of nature, courtship, public affairs.
| Title | Regions | Description | Manuscripts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flindell's Western Luminary |
Newspaper. 1813–1835. Thomas Flindell. |
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The Steele Circle
A network of several generations of nonconformist writers, primarily women, centred in the West Country of England (primarily at Exeter in Devonshire). Among its most well-known members were Anne Steele, a well-known hymn-writer after whom the circle is named, Mary Scott, Hannah Towgood Wakeford, and Mary Steele Wakeford. See Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols., ed. Timothy Whelan, Pickering & Chatto, 2011.