List of early-modern British women poets

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This is an alphabetical list of female poets who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. Nota bene: Authors of poetry are the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre.

• Blain, Virginia, et al., eds. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (Internet Archive)
• Buck, Claire, ed.The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. (Internet Archive)
• Greer, Germaine, ed. Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988.
• Lonsdale, Roger ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
• Robertson, Fiona, ed. Women's Writing, 1778–1838. Oxford: OUP, 2001. (Internet Archive)
• Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter. An encyclopedia of British women writers. Rutgers University Press, 1998. (Internet Archive)
• Todd, Janet, ed. British Women Writers: a critical reference guide. London: Routledge, 1989. (Internet Archive)
• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660-1800. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. (Internet Archive)

• Bibliography of Early Modern Women Writers That Are In Print
• 17th Century Women Poets - biographical and bibliographical information on selected poets
• British Women Romantic Poets - an electronic collection of texts for the period (1789–1832).
• The Brown University Women Writers Project Emphasis is on pre-Victorian women writers.
• A Celebration of Women Writers - A major focus of this site is the development of on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works.
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project A collection of texts by women writing from the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century.
• List of biographical dictionaries Collectively, the resources at this site "provide information about any 17th-century British woman writer one could imagine."
• Luminarium - an online anthology of English literature
• A Time-Line of English Poetry from Old English to Post Modern
• Representative Poetry Online Includes an index of 4,079 English poems by 618 poets, with bibliographies and literary criticism.
• Romantic Circles - a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture
• Women Romantic-Era Writers
• The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online