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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | This contains autobiographical fragments and insightful comments on other women writers. Objects of AG
's comment include Susan Ferrier
, Charlotte Smith
(whose poems AG
felt to be easy, flowing, and correct, but low on... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriette Wilson | Much in this revised and expanded edition is merely scrappy (and some is written by Stockdale), with nuggets strung together by such giveaway phrases as By the bye and To change the subject. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 249 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Katharine Elwood | Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Griselda Murray
, Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford
, Hester Lynch Piozzi |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Germaine Greer | The introduction begins, It is not quite forty years since eliminating menopause was first mooted. Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin. 1 Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin. 2 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hester Mulso Chapone | The essay conceals a serious argument about people who miss their vocation in life under the carefully light-hearted guise of a dream-vision about Jupiter taking pity on such people and redirecting them. It makes a... |
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 | Hester Mulso Chapone | HMC
contributed a prefatory ode in praise of Elizabeth Carter
's Epictetus, which appeared with it in April 1758. |
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 |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | Elizabeth Carter
posthumously and anonymously published the first volume by CT
to see the light: Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 29 (1770): 478 |
Textual Production | Jane Warton | Her brother Joseph
(who had been invited to contribute by Samuel Johnson
in March) wrote to her on 26 April beg[ging] your Assistance in giving us some Pictures drawn from real Life. . .... |
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 |
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 |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | Elizabeth Carter
published CT
's posthumous Works. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Sarah Dixon | SD
's subscription for her book of poems must have been nearly complete when Elizabeth Carter
wrote to Edward Cave
asking for any leftover copies of the proposals. Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press. 236 n6 |
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