Arabella Moreton (after 1690 – 1727) was a British poet. Moreton was the daughter of Matthew Ducie Moreton who was the MP for

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between 1708 and 1713, and between 1715 and 1720. She died unmarried in May 1727. Moreton's poem ''A Humble Wish'' appeared in several of the

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

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