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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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 | 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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Brereton | In her youth JB
knew |
Reception | Jane Brereton | This poem brought a whole clutch of replies: from Fido ( 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... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Boyd | She dedicated it to her patron Lady Hertford
. The British Library
copy is 12604 ccc. 7. Harvard University
holds the only known copy of an undated set of subscription proposals, which is headed Any... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Her selection of subjects is interesting and original. Her six are the English scholar and translator Elizabeth Carter
, the Hanoverian (English by adoption) astronomer Caroline Herschel
, the Dutch explorer of Africa Alexandrine Tinné |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bentley | 1,935 copies of the book were subscribed for. Names on the list include those of BluestockingsElizabeth Carter
and Hester Mulso Chapone
, William Cowper
, and a number of those men who later wrote... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Enfield
quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy
. Her volume... |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More
, Anna Seward
, and Elizabeth Carter
, who found some passages amazingly sublime. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 193 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Aikin found it deplorable that Barbauld had left so many pieces unfinished. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 518 |
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