List of early-modern British women poets

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.

Wroth, Sonnet 7, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
The seventh sonnet of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus , from a manuscript in Wroth's own hand, c. 1620