Theme: Domestic life
Discussion of domestic activities such as cooking, dressing, washing; portraits of domestic life (see also Courtship, marriage; Family; Solitude, loneliness, retirement).
Beinecke Osborn c165
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anne Watkins, ca. 1731.
32 items (23 are excerpts from Paradise Lost and 4 are Stephen Duck poems).
New Year's theme of reflection and self-improvement.
Beinecke Osborn c376
Title | Untitled |
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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 d258
Title | The thoughts of three ... Employment during [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, with illustration by Mary Rogers, 1808.
37 poems.
Two of the three sections are poems by "Bree," "Nadine," and "Rio" composed for "Employment" during winter 1808.
Pastoral poems; conduct, morality poems; poems about domestic life and nature.
Beinecke Osborn fc185
Title | Gleanings in prose and verse, selected by Jo [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Joseph Taylor, 1799.
About 389 pieces of verse and prose.
Satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Also contains numerous humorous epigrams and epitaphs.
Chawton House 4946, MAN WIL
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Chawton House |
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.
Clark MS 1994.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
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.
Folger MS M.a.15
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Associated with Penelope Judith Maitland, daughter of Col. Maitland
30 poems.
Attention to aesthetic features; themes of friendship, sentimental love, poverty, despair and hope.
Folger MS W.a.118
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1765.
29 items.
Coz. Widow Davis gives compiler a Shenstone manuscript ca. 1752.
Lighthearted poems (many about public affairs) with some social satire.
Houghton MS Eng 611
Title | I: "A collection of poems and various fragme [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Rev. Thomas Austen, 1760.
Three volumes, only the first two of which are manuscript verse miscellanies, and therefore included in this entry.
768 poems.
A real variety of contents. The first volume revolves around poems about various natural elements and experiences of country life. The second volume
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 515
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, ca. 1750.
15 poems.
Themes of love and desire, sociability, and contemporary politics; items in French and Italian.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 636
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
William Tighe, ca. 1815.
25 poems.
Mainly light-hearted original poems on such subjects as love, theatre, and furniture.
Beinecke Osborn c391
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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.
Beinecke Osborn c82
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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.
Beinecke Osborn c83
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous member of the Porter family, late eighteenth-century.
4 volumes, 2039 poems.
Contemporary poetry, many items commonly included in manuscript verse miscellanies.
Beinecke Osborn fc132
Title | Poems on Several Occasions; Collected from D [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
James Forbes, 1766–1800.
This entry concerns only the first volume, as the second is entirely prose.
151 poems.
Poems on various subjects, including many on death and women, but also conduct, retirement, nature, and slavery.
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. 47
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Anonymous female member of John Graham Clarke household, ca. 1752–1766.
66 items.
Interest in women's conduct and morality.
Clark MS 1982.002
Title | Miscellany Poems : containing various kinds [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Elizabeth Munbee, 1745.
16 poems.
Miscellaneous collection of poems by popular poets like Samuel Wesley, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Nicholas Rowe.
Clark MS 1987.001
Title | Pleasing variety for Miss Mary Arnold / Mrs. [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Mrs. Stapleton for Miss Mary Arnold, ca. 1780s–1790s.
212 poems.
A gift for formal or informal educational use. A lot of riddles and poems about flowers; emphasis on items written by young ladies. Most items about or intended for women.
Clark MS 1993.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Francis Hawes, 1720–1760.
An ambigraph volume with poetry on both ends. This entry is concerned with the two ends of the volume only, not the middle (recipe) section which is in another hand.
165 poems.
Political satire poems in the style of early eighteenth-century; satire of court manners and prominent women. Many poems that mention Bath.
Clark MS 2015.014
Title | Epitaphs. |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Rae family, ca. 1800.
151 pages.
Collection of epitaphs from gravestones and published sources.
Houghton MS Eng 1280
Title | Poems on several occasions with introductory [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
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.
Huntington Stowe Vol. III
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Huntington Library |
Anna Eliza Grenville, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, 1811–1832.
A mix of copied poetry and clippings.
33 poems.
Mostly poems about political events and nature.