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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Katherine Philips | Another poem, dates five months after To my excellent Lucasia, marked Anne Owen's receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society. Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books. 1: 101 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katherine Philips | |
| Publishing | Sarah Pearson | Subscribers included members of the Fitzwilliam family (that of Pearson's patron
), Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Seymour Montague | The third epistle performs the conventional act of praising historical women: the monarchs Elizabeth I
and Catherine the Great
of Russia for their exercise of power, the French scholar Anne Dacier
, and eleven British... |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Montagu | The letters of EM
's youth—to the Duchess of Portland
and to her sister Sarah Scott
—are sparkling, irreverent, and inventive. Some of these were conveyed via Elizabeth Elstob
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Montagu | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
, in a review of this book and of Alice Gaussen
's monograph on Elizabeth Carter
, used them to place the Bluestockings in relation to modern women's behaviour, but she was... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Montagu | The patriotism of EM
's riposte ensured its enthusiastic reception. Readers (among them a brother of Elizabeth Carter
, who refrained from enlightening him) assumed that the anonymity of this authoritative critical voice concealed a... |
| Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Epictetus was both a slave and a cripple. His philosophy, which insisted on the mind's capacity to rise above adverse circumstances, held considerable appeal for women writers of this period. (The best-known translation was that... |
| Anthologization | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
(with Elizabeth Carter
) was one of only two women included in Robert Dodsley
's canon-making Collection of Poems, published in March 1748. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 517-18 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
sought out Elizabeth Carter
after the publication of Carter's Epictetus. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 171 |
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