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The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Fleur Adcock that was published in 1987 by Faber and Faber. Sixty-four writers born between 1869 (Charlotte Mew) and 1945 (Selima Hill) are represented. Adcock organizes the anthology chronologically according to the birth of each contributor. [1]
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."
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:British poets. ... Pages in category "British women poets" The following 132 pages are in this category, out of 132 ...
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), first African-American to publish a book of poetry; Ulrika Widström (1764–1841), Swedish poet and translator; Helen Maria Williams (1762–1827), English novelist and poet; Maria Petronella Woesthoven (1760–1830), Dutch poet; Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), English poet and diarist
Pages in category "English women poets" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 566 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology is a poetry anthology edited by Roger Lonsdale and published in 1989 by the Oxford University Press.In the introduction, Lonsdale notes that while the featured writers may have flourished, to one degree or another, during the eighteenth century, by the time he came to collect their work, many of them had "disappeared from view."
A prodigy as a child, Wheatley was the first black person to publish a book of poems in the American colony, and though her poems are sometimes thought of as expressing "meek submission," she is also what Camille Dungy describes as "a foremother," and a role model for black women poets as "part of the fabric" of American poetry. [21]
Women writers were increasingly active in all genres throughout the 18th century, and by the 1790s women's poetry was flourishing. Notable poets later in the period include Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Joanna Baillie, Susanna Blamire, Felicia Hemans, Mary Leapor, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hannah More, and Mary Robinson. In the past decades there ...