Anna Sharpe, ca. 1751–1790.

38 items, some possibly in the hand of later owner Anna Maria Sharpe.

Primarily lighthearted poems.

Anonymous, ca. 1798.

Miniature book with elaborate illustrations, perhaps for children.

17 items.

Includes a song in Cumberland dialect and material from Poor Robin's Almanac.

Charles Earle, ca. 1750–1770. 

96 items.

Original epitaphs, occasional poetry, prayers, and letters.

Anne Dickinson, 1787.

Only considered as a miscellaneous verse manuscript up to p. 146 (/338) because the later section is in different hands, and is dated after 1820. 

95 poems.

Many poems about couples where one of the two dies; very much a women’s manuscript, with themes of love, conduct, friendship, pets etc.

Anne Taylor, around or after the 1790s. 

23 poems.

Verse extracts and original poems, many about death. One Jacobite poem, a couple poems about children, and some social satire. 

E.H., early nineteenth century.

23 poems.

Primarily sentimental subjects such as death, religion, and family, with a few more satirical entries.

Anonymous, ca. 1816.

Over 200 poems.

Serious, sentimental, and occasional poems, many addressed to individual women.

Hester Bradley, 1807–1810, with two poems added in 1831. 

49 poems.

Occasional poems and poems about friends and family, all with a Quaker bent. 

Mary Harris Cornwallis, ca. 1790–1820.

Approximately 108 poems.

Many occasional poems by the compiler and her family; this manuscript is also packed with print insertions, many of which are (prose) news items about the deaths of royals.

Eleanor Peart, 1768.

Organized chronologically and thematically.

182 poems. 

A high proportion of original poetry; strong emphasis on the pastoral including the use of pastoral pseudonyms.

Peart-Bate coterie.

Tickell family, 1787–ca. 1828.

35 poems.

Poems about love, friendship, and artistic pursuits, as well as commemorative poems about deaths in the family.

Lady Elizabeth Loftus, ca. 1800. 

24 poems.

Lighthearted poems by members of the Loftus and Townshend families. 

Elizabeth Sarah Wilmot, 1744–1784.

52 poems.

Original compositions of Elizabeth Sarah Wilmot and her mother, Sarah Wilmot. Many poems about female friends and family.

Anonymous (with many references to the Cotton family of Eardley), ca. 1788.

Only the first section of the manuscript (by the first hand) is examined in this entry.

17 poems.

Themes of friendship. 

Mary Woodyeare Tibbits, ca. 1800.

A later owner, Mary Isabella Hood, used the volume to press flowers and leaves.

113 poems.

A book structured upon the narrative of her life, almost entirely original poems.

Catherine Tuthill Massy, ca. 1795.

46 poems.

A young Irish lady's book, themes of anti-slavery, interest in captives in India, sufferings of Ireland.

Azarias Williams, 1785–1790. 

The compiler blurs his own voice with that of his sources by signing his name to much of what he copies.

78 poems.

Choices seem significant autobiographically—themes of emigration, social behaviour, British patriotism, New York, death, children, sentimental courtship, male unfaithfulness/libertinism, religious/devotional expressions, and topographical poetry.

Associated with Penelope Judith Maitland, daughter of Col. Maitland

30 poems.

Attention to aesthetic features; themes of friendship, sentimental love, poverty, despair and hope.

Elizabeth Gilchrist, ca. 1800–1815.

One main hand plus one organising hand, maybe that of a daughter.

89 items, 74 poems.

Mixed book with themes of women, death, friendship, love, etc.

A.T.W, 1793–ca. 1800.

A lot of retrospective editing including comments and cross-outs. 

153 poems.

Many poems by or about important figures of literature and the stage; also epitaphs, inscriptions and letters; many poems by women.

Anonymous, ca. 1773-1806.

Crowded, no margins, looks more like a commonplace book than a usual poetry miscellany.

361 poems.

Enormous amount of material compiled over many years roughly chronologically.

Louisa Grey, ca. 1780s.

Some items specified as not for circulation. 

150 poems.

Many poems about women, love; some epitaphs.

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, 1810–1814.

Five volumes for her adopted nephew, but only the first three are primarily poetry, and therefore considered manuscript verse miscellanies. 

Largely original occasional poems accompanied by prose biographical material and information about the circumstances of each item's composition. 

Charlotte Burney Francis Broome, 1771–ca. 1806.

82 poems.

Mostly original poetry by members of the Burney family with themes of family, courtship/marriage, and death.

Hester Thrale Piozzi, ca. 1810.

50 poems.

Entirely or almost entirely original poetry, many occasional. 

Hester Thrale Piozzi, ca. 1818.

183 poems.

Mostly other authors, some original work, often addressed to her daughters.

Elizabeth Church, 1766–ca. 1791.

68 poems.

Copied by multiple hands but primarily by Elizabeth Church.

Popular manuscript verse miscellany poems and epitaphs.