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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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Kelty | Her first subject is Princess Charlotte
. After that MAK
includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce
, whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly
in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey
, Lady Rachel Russell |
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... |
Literary responses | Mary Latter | The Critical gave the book a one-paragraph review, noting ML
's misfortunes, her setting reviewers at defiance, and some strokes of genius in her writing. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 8 (1759): 171 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | Samuel Johnson
pronounced in conversation that CL
was worthy to rank with the exceptional women Carter
, More
, and Burney
: more yet, she was superiour to them all. Boswell, James. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon. 4: 275 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | With her husband CM
lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan
after she had become a writer. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 14 |
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:... |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Masters | Among the households where she lived were those of Elizabeth Carter
(who sometimes read her work and discussed it with her) and of Edward Cave
(the proprietor of the Gentleman's Magazine). It was Carter... |
Textual Production | Mary Masters | She had been writing and gathering the material here for at least ten years. The volume was printed for the Author, and dedicated to Lord Burlington
(who subscribed for eight copies). Its publication was... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Miller | Anna Riggs (later |
Residence | Anna Miller | In 1754 Anna Riggs (later |
Travel | Elizabeth Montagu | Her delight in her journey (on which Elizabeth Carter
as well as Bath accompanied her) is reflected in the whimsicality of her letters to England about it. She claimed to have seen mermaids as she... |
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