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Aphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers; Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), New England's first published poet; Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess; Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1654–1724), French ...
Poems by Eminent Ladies was only the first of "multiple attempts to promote and anthologize women writers as important members of the national literary tradition," [9] part of what scholar Moira Ferguson calls an "eruption of female panegyrics," mainly by men, that includes George Ballard's Memoirs of British Ladies (biographies of sixty-five ...
List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell
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.
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 .
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and among first English professional female writers; Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), American poet and short-story writer; Eavan Boland (1944–2020), Irish poet; Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess
Luís de Camões, one of the best-known poets of the 16th century. Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet; Dilys Cadwaladr (1902–1979), Welsh poet and fiction writer in Welsh; Cædmon (fl. 7th c.), earliest Northumbrian poet known by name; Maoilios Caimbeul (born 1944), Scots poet and children's writer in Gaelic
Western women writers have long been a marginalized group. 1979 was the first year an anthology on western American women writers was published. [11] The Western Literature Association was founded in the 1960's to foster the work of contemporary women writers. [ 11 ]