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Charlotte Mew

B. 1869 D. 1928

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A frail, dead, new-born lamb, ghostly and pitiful and white a blot upon the night, the moon's dropped child! - Charlotte Mew, 'Fame'

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Adelaide Anne Procter

B. 1825 D. 1864

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While he is at rest, I am cursed still to live:- even Death loved him the best. - Adelaide Anne Procter 'Envy'

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Felicia Hemans

B. 1793 D. 1835

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With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, that well had borne their part - but the noblest thing which perish'd there, was that young faithful heart. - Felicia Hemans 'Casabianca'

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Mary Robinson

B. 1757 D. 1800

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Oh! let each mental feature proclaim the labour of the mind, and leave your charms to NATURE. - Mary Robinson, 'Female Fashions For 1799'

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Robert Burns

B. 1759 D. 1796

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Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. - Robert Burns 'Song: ae fond kiss and then we sever'

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Christopher Smart

B. 1722 D. 1771

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For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him. - Christopher Smart 'My cat Jeoffrey'

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Anne Finch

B. 1661 D. 1720

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And who has greater sense, but greater sorrow shares? - Anne Finch, 'The hog, the sheep and the goat, carrying to a fair'

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Katherine Philips

B. 1632 D. 1664

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What on Earth deserves our trust? Youth and Beauty both are dust. - Katherine Philips 'Epitaph'

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His poetry is what all poetry should be, the surprising and beautiful organisation of things that life has disorganised. John Fuller

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Adventurous, compelling and utterly original - The Times

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Birthcries repeatedly / new, self pull out self, self / issuing that self home - Vahni Capildeo, 'On Not Writing as a West Indian Woman'

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Anna Laetitia Barbauld

B. 1743 D. 1825

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Woman! too long degraded, scorned, opprest; / O born to rule in partial Law's despite, / Resume thy native empire o'er the breast! Anna Laetitia Barbauld, 'The Rights of Women'

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