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.
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Friends, Associates | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
judged Anna Seward
to be greedy for flattery, especially from the opposite sex. In 1799 she met Hannah More
, who was then at the height of her fame and to whom admittance was... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Brereton | In her youth JB
knew |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
observed to Elizabeth Carter
that their faces and character-sketches were now circulated in all kinds of popular media. Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press. 101 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Collyer | MC
knew Elizabeth Carter
slightly before her marriage, and was a friend of Samuel Richardson
. Carter wrote of her to Elizabeth Montagu
and as an author she also met other Bluestockings, becoming particularly... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Elizabeth Carter
was Lady Spencer's mentor on religion and reassured her that her high social station made it necessary, even meritorious, to be to a large extent worldly. The Althorp MSS at the British Library |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | Caroline's grandmother and godmother Lady Spencer
was a forceful and beautiful woman, the matriarch of her family, and, like both her daughters, a patron, particularly of women. She was in attendance at Caroline's birth and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Talbot | Whatever the nature of CT
's involvement with Elizabeth Carter
, she was involved too in love-feelings for a man at about the same time that the two women first met. He is unidentified, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | The celebrations also included ringing the church bells and presenting CM
with a gold medal. One of the odes (published at Bath the same year) depicts her as triumphing over other, more conservative women writers:... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Katharine Elwood | AKE
's maternal grandmother, Mary (Jacob) Barrett
, was a Kentish woman who had been a friend of the bluestocking Elizabeth Carter
, while her husband belonged (possibly through her) to Carter's literary circle, and... |
Education | Catharine Macaulay | CM
went through the typical education for a girl of her class, with an ill-qualified governess. She also read Roman history (and any history dealing with the issue of liberty) in her father's library with... |
Education | Elizabeth Grant | EG
refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard... |
Dedications | Jane West | JW
dedicated this work, with permission, to Elizabeth Carter
. The edition, costing her publisher just under five shillings to produce for each set of volumes, brought in twelve shillings a set, or £350 profit... |
Dedications | Hester Mulso Chapone | HMC
published Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, with her name, dedicated to Elizabeth Carter
. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 45 (1775): 86 |
Dedications | Ann Thicknesse | AT
published with her name Sketches of the Lives and Writings of the Ladies of France, a biographical dictionary whose title includes the boast that it is Addressed to Mrs Elizabeth Carter. Thicknesse, Ann. Sketches of the Lives and Writings of the Ladies of France. J. Dodsley, E. and C. Dilly, R. Cruttwell, and T. Shrimpton. title-page Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 46 (March 1778): 218 |
Dedications | Ann Thicknesse | Both the title-page and the last page (285) of the volume proper insist that it is the first volume; but the project seems not to have been continued at this time. The dedication to Carter |
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