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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Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | Elizabeth Carter
published Essays on Various Subjects by CT
, posthumously, as by the author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 33 (1772): 259 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
's correspondence during the years 1827-39, when she was composing her Introductory Anecdotes on her grandmother, throws much light on attitudes to female authorship. Selections includes her acute, even satirical, comment on the Bluestockings... |
Textual Production | Mariana Starke | Her preface says the translation was first suggested to her by the dowager Lady Spencer
(mother of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
), whom she met in Italy; Lady Spencer also persuaded to her to publish... |
Literary responses | Jane Squire | Elizabeth Carter
wrestled with this book, driving herself half mad to find out the meaning of it and telling Catherine Talbot
she was enraged at her own stupidity. Pope Benedict XIV
, to whom a... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Smith | Smith translated various different parts of the Old Testament. Bowdler showed some of some of her versions from Hebrew to a scholar of that language, who assumed that the writer was male and responded... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Smith | Hannah More
praised the recently-dead ES
in Coelebs in Search of a Wife, setting her in the distinguished company of Elizabeth Carter
for acquirements which would have been distinguished in an University, meekly softened... |
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... |
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... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The Gentleman's Magazine published Elizabeth Carter
's poetic tribute (both personal and literary) to the recently dead ESR
. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. (1737): 247 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The Philips poem explicitly ranks friendship above marriage, since the latter relationship may be polluted by Lust, design, or some unworthy ends. Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books. 1: 150 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | This may have been in print before the end of 1738. It had a frontispiece portrait of ESR
by George Vertue
, which marks her fame with the attributes of crown, laurel, and trumpet. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 17 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Reynolds | FR
pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men. Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, pp. 2: 250 - 300. 2: 252 |
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 |
Textual Production | Eleanor Anne Porden | In general, EAP
felt that poetic powers seldom contributed to the happiness of a female. Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, p. various pages. 105 Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, p. various pages. 106 |
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