Devon
Beinecke Osborn c153
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1746.
37 items, 23 poems.
Largely the work of Hannah Wakeford ("Amynta"). Begins with seven letters from Amynta to Aurelia followed by religious hymns and poems, enigmas, and poems on friendship and solitude.
Reflects the work of the Towgood-Steele-Wakeford family.
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 fd32
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, 1811–1818.
Over 100 poems.
Largely poems on nationalistic subjects, others focused on serious and sentimental subjects like nature, death, friendship, and religion.
British Library Add. MS 70494
Title | Poems on Several Occasions |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | British Library |
Soame Jenyns, 1729.
Presentation copy of Beinecke Osborn c147, only slightly different contents. Poems written for Margaret Cavendish Harley, her father, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and her circle of friends.
18 items.
Flattery, panegyric.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 125
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1740s.
73 poems.
Seemingly a woman’s book with themes of nature, courtship, public affairs.
Title | Regions | Description | Manuscripts |
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Flindell's Western Luminary |
Newspaper. 1813–1835. Thomas Flindell. |
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Towgood-Steele-Wakeford family
Part of a network of several generations of nonconformist writers, primarily women, centred in the West Country of England (primarily at Exeter, in Devonshire). Among its most well-known members were Anne Steele, Hannah Towgood Wakeford, and Mary Steele Wakeford. See Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols., ed. Timothy Whelan, Pickering & Chatto, 2011.