Exeter, 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 c382
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, late eighteenth-century.
29 poems on the First Line Index.
Collection of poems by various authors, riddles, parodies, etc.
| 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.