Arabella Moreton

Arabella Moreton (after 1690 – 1727) was a British poet. Moreton was the daughter of Matthew Ducie Moreton who was the MP for Gloucestershire between 1708 and 1713, and between 1715 and 1720.[1] She died unmarried in May 1727.[2]

Moreton's poem A Humble Wish appeared in several of the anthologies of polite verse that were popular in the 18th century. It was printed in A New Miscellany[3] under the name "B-ll M-rt-m". After her death, it appeared anonymously in Cowper's Norfolk Poetical Miscellany.[4] It is included in Roger Lonsdale's 1989 anthology Eighteenth-Century Women Poets.[5]

References
  1. "MORETON, Matthew Ducie (c.1662–1735), of Moreton, Staffs. and Tortworth, Glos". History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  2. The Historical Register... With a Chronological Diary of All Remarkable Occurrences, For the Year 1727. R. Nutt, Old Bailey. 1727. p. 19 of the Chronological Diary.
  3. A new miscellany, a collection of pieces of poetry from Bath, Tunbridge [&c.] written chiefly by persons of quality. To which is added Grongar hill, a poem [by J. Dyer]. New miscellany. Lond. 1726.
  4. The norfolk poetical miscellany. To which are added some select essays and letters in prose. Never printed before. By the author of the Progress of physick. In two volumes Cowper, Ashley. London: printed for the author, and sold by J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall. 1744.
  5. Lonsdale, Roger (1990). Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. p. 105. ISBN 0192827758.


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