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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 descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Travel | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
travelled to Paris with a group which included her nephew Matthew Montagu
, Dorothea Gregory
, and Elizabeth Carter
's nephew Montagu Pennington
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 249 Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press. 130 Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable. 1: 311, 335 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
expressed to Elizabeth Carter
the Bluestockings' determination to think for ourselves, & act for ourselves, rather than being so perfectly of ye [sic] Rib of Man as Woman ought to be. Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6. 62 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Montagu | By her marriage EM
acquired wealth and improved her social standing. Edward Montagu was a grandson of the first Earl of Sandwich
(admiral and patron of Samuel Pepys
). He owned mines in the rapidly-developing... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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