She has been called "the first professional woman poet in England."
She was one of the most admired women poets during the mid-1840s.
At that point, she says, 'I had never read a whole book of poetry by a black woman poet.
The database started out with information about 15 women poets, which will be expanded over time.
Since the text speaks of women poets, the poem could have been written by a woman.
How many women poets of the eighteenth century can most of us name?
The gender bias is evident even in the criticism of women poets.
"Not more than man nor less: the treatment of women poets in Landfall, 1947-1961."
Atwood's daughter, on the other hand, and the women poets she imagines are doing something different with words.
The texts of most of her books are works by contemporary American women poets.