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Elizabeth Carter
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Standard Name: Carter, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Carter
Nickname: Mrs Carter
Used Form: A Lady
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was renowned during a long span of the later eighteenth century as a scholar and translator from several languages and the most seriously learned among the Bluestockings. Her English version of Epictetus
was still current into the twentieth century. She was also a poet and a delightful letter-writer.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Fidelia | Over the next couple of months came further poems by Elizabeth Carter
, Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735): 379 Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735) 382 |
| Reception | Jane Brereton | This poem brought a whole clutch of replies: from Fido ( Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735): 255-6, 259 |
| Reception | Jane West | JW
was well-known as a productive writer who nevertheless put out a great deal of domestic labour. Jane Austen
, marvelling at her sister's time management skills, remarked: how good Mrs. West cd [sic] have... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Bentley | 1,935 copies of the book were subscribed for. Names on the list include those of BluestockingsElizabeth Carter
and Hester Mulso Chapone
, William Cowper
, and a number of those men who later wrote... |
| Publishing | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Boyd | She dedicated it to her patron Lady Hertford
. The British Library
copy is 12604 ccc. 7. Harvard University
holds the only known copy of an undated set of subscription proposals, which is headed Any... |
| Publishing | Sarah Pearson | Subscribers included members of the Fitzwilliam family (that of Pearson's patron
), Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. |
| Publishing | Jane Brereton | The book was issued in two formats, octavo and quarto. An Advertisement identified JB
as the Gentleman's Magazine's Melissa. Subscribers included Thomas Birch
and Elizabeth Carter
. It reprinted other contributions besides those of... |
| Publishing | Sarah Dixon | SD
reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided... |
| Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW
's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall
, with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway
. Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
(whose name... |
| Publishing | Margaret Bryan | The full title runs A Compendious System of Astronomy, in a course of familiar lectures; in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not... |
| Publishing | Anna Maria Mackenzie | This novel is now extremely rare, though a Dublin edition appeared the same year. The subscribers, where their place of residence is listed, come mainly from London and its environs (particularly eastward), with several from... |
| Publishing | Mary Masters | This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press. 1: 409-10 |
| Publishing | Fidelia | The Gentleman's Magazine printed a poem to Fidelia
by Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735): 255 Barker, Anthony. “Poetry from the Provinces: Amateur Poets in the Gentleman’s Magazine in the 1730s and 1740s”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, pp. 241-56. 254 |
| Author summary | Samuel Johnson | Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ
achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and... |
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