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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Occupation | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
Literary responses | Fidelia | Next month commentators were busy. Jane Brereton
as Melissa addressed both Elizabeth Carter
(whom, in her turn, she supposed to be an anonymous male writer) and Fido, whom she assured that Fidelia ought to... |
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... |
Literary responses | Sarah Fielding | Samuel Richardson
respected The Cry as a new Species of Writing, sent copies to two friends (Sophia Wescomb
and Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh
), and wanted it to go into a second edition— Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14. 13 |
Literary responses | Mary Jones | Catherine Talbot
found Holt Waters and A Letter to Doctor Pitt indelicate and was surprised that Carter
liked MJ
's poetry. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press. 183 |
Literary responses | Sarah Fielding | The novel was well reviewed. Elizabeth Carter
and Catherine Talbot
read it and speculated about Fielding as author. Mary Ann Radcliffe
cited it in The Female Advocate in 1799. Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Female Advocate. Verner and Hood. 91n |
Literary responses | Mary Latter | The Critical gave the book a one-paragraph review, noting ML
's misfortunes, her setting reviewers at defiance, and some strokes of genius in her writing. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 8 (1759): 171 |
Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Notices in the British Review and other English journals were fairly appreciative, but quick to compliment British women writers at the expense of the French, as if the book had been a challenge to their... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | Samuel Johnson
pronounced in conversation that CL
was worthy to rank with the exceptional women Carter
, More
, and Burney
: more yet, she was superiour to them all. Boswell, James. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon. 4: 275 |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | Elizabeth Carterfelt a triumph when she learned the author was a woman. Pennington, Montagu, and Elizabeth Carter. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter. F. C. and J. Rivington. 1: 443 |
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 | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
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... |
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... |
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