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]