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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. 76, 78 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Harcourt | MH
and her husband
subscribed in 1803 to Poems by the widowed Mrs George Sewell (Mary Sewell)
. Other subscribers included Elizabeth Carter
, Elizabeth Cobbold
, Catherine Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Arabella Rowden |
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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Miller | Anna Riggs (later |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Talbot | CT
first met Elizabeth Carter
, after hearing her praises sung by the scientist Thomas Wright
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 68 |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Trimmer | She corresponded with Jane West
, Elizabeth Carter
, and Hannah More
. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. under West Balfour, Clara. A Sketch of Mrs. Trimmer. W. and F. G. Cash. |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Brereton | In her youth JB
knew |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
observed to Elizabeth Carter
that their faces and character-sketches were now circulated in all kinds of popular media. Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press. 101 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Collyer | MC
knew Elizabeth Carter
slightly before her marriage, and was a friend of Samuel Richardson
. Carter wrote of her to Elizabeth Montagu
and as an author she also met other Bluestockings, becoming particularly... |
Friends, Associates | Oliver Goldsmith | Goldsmith met and became a friend and associate of Edmund Burke
, Samuel Johnson
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and others belonging to the Club, of which he was a founder member. He was a... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
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