Elizabeth Carter
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Standard Name: Carter, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Carter
Nickname: Mrs Carter
Used Form: A Lady
EC
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.
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Literary responses | Hannah More | Elizabeth Montagu
wrote to Elizabeth Carter
on 19 September 1793 ostensibly speculating as to what exactly was meant by the title Bas Bleu. She seemed to think (probably feigning, since the term bluestocking was... |
Literary responses | Sarah Fielding | Samuel Richardson
respected The Cry as a new Species of Writing, sent copies to two friends (Sophia Wescomb
and Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh
), and wanted it to go into a second edition— Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14. 13 |
Literary responses | Mary Jones | Catherine Talbot
found Holt Waters and A Letter to Doctor Pitt indelicate and was surprised that Carter
liked MJ
's poetry. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press. 183 |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Once an omnivorous reader, HM
restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper
as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 90 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katherine Philips | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Brooke | FB
used her periodical The Old Maid as a forum for praise of poetry by Anne Finch
and Elizabeth Carter
. Finch had also been celebrated in one of the essays in The World which... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Elliott | While some of these poems, such as It is not known that I am married, anticipate her later religious emphasis, they are mainly lighthearted and secular. All CE
's verses are referred to in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications. 49-50 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Enfield
quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy
. Her volume... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Aikin found it deplorable that Barbauld had left so many pieces unfinished. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 518 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Thicknesse | AT
makes it clear she is no proto-feminist: If women are thought to possess minds less capable of solid reflection than men, they owe this conjecture entirely to their own vanity, and erroneous method of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron
's Childe Harold. Bottorff, William K., and Sarah Wentworth Morton. “Introduction”. My Mind and its Thoughts, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 5-16. 12 |
Health | Sarah Scott | During her illness Sarah stayed at Mount Morris, the family home in Kent, while Elizabeth stayed with a neighbour. The smallpox ruined SS
's beauty. Her general health recovered, but she was all her life... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Dixon | Perhaps from her time in London, SD
made some literary relationships. She was a good friend of Elizabeth Carter
, and she subscribed to Mary Jones
's Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, published in 1750. Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press. 140 Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press. |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | Henrietta Maria Bowdler
, who must already have known AR
socially, wrote to tell her that Elizabeth Carter
very much wished to be introduced; Radcliffe declined. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 182-3 |
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