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.
Portrait of Elizabeth Carter as Minerva, the Greek goddess of wisdom, by John Fayram in probably the late 1730s. She wears gilded metal armour over a white loose shirt and under a blue sash, and a helmet with feathery plume. She is holding in one hand a round shield, in the other a book bound in red, with gilt decoration, which (as Edward Cave revealed in writing her praise) is a copy of Plato. National Portrait Gallery.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Jane Brereton
This poem brought a whole clutch of replies: from Fido (Thomas Beach, whose verse persona runs to jocular misogyny about women's shrewishness), Elizabeth Carter (publishing under her initials), and Fidelia herself.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 255-6, 259
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Brereton
In Melissa to Fido she apologises for doubting Fidelia's gender but argues that Fidelia ought to have been flattered at being called manly. In Melissa to Mr. E.C. she makes exactly the same mistake about...
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...
Textual Features Jane Brereton
JB 's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful...
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident.
It was a long...
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...
Textual Production Susanna Centlivre
The writer of the preface takes up the cudgels for Centlivre in feminist style, dwelling on the obstacles she faced as a woman, and invoking the achievements of other women like Anne Dacier , May Drummond
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hester Mulso Chapone
The essay conceals a serious argument about people who miss their vocation in life under the carefully light-hearted guise of a dream-vision about Jupiter taking pity on such people and redirecting them. It makes a...
Textual Production Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC contributed a prefatory ode in praise of Elizabeth Carter 's Epictetus, which appeared with it in April 1758.
Textual Features Hester Mulso Chapone
When Richardson offered her a list of examples of filial disobedience, she replied that no doubt an equally heinous list could be produced of parental oppression. With Carter she mulled over religious and literary questions...
Friends, Associates Hester Mulso Chapone
Hester Mulso , while visiting her aunt at Canterbury, met Elizabeth Carter there.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
76, 78
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
Textual Production Hester Mulso Chapone
This was the earliest occasion on which anyone other than Johnson himself wrote any part of the Rambler, a publication which Mulso and Elizabeth Carter agreed in finding too gloomy in tone.
Textual Features Elizabeth Cobbold
This collection features poetry by women such as Anna Maria Porter , Amelia Opie , Lucy Aikin , Elizabeth Carter , Anna Letitia Barbauld , Anne Hunter , Mary RobinsonCharlotte Smith , and EC herself.

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