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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Textual Features | Hester Mulso Chapone | When Richardson offered her a list of examples of filial disobedience, she replied that no doubt an equally heinous list could be produced of parental oppression. With Carter
she mulled over religious and literary questions... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Cobbold | This collection features poetry by women such as Anna Maria Porter
, Amelia Opie
, Lucy Aikin
, Elizabeth Carter
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Anne Hunter
, Mary RobinsonCharlotte Smith
, and EC
herself. |
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 |
Textual Features | Ann Fisher | Her prefatory New Thoughts on Education observes the manifest absurdity of austere or learned pedant[s] in trying to instil Latin or Greek by whipping. Corporal punishment, she argues, produces disgust instead of a Love 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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | CT
carefully kept her green book full of manuscript essays, meditations, poems, dialogues, allegories and prose pastorals, in what she called her considering drawer. Her friend Elizabeth Carter
urged her to publish, but without... |
Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | |
Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children... |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | CT
was, like most of her contemporaries, an assiduous and entertaining correspondent. Letters that she wrote to Jemima Campbell (later Lady Grey)
and Lady Mary Grey (later Gregory)
were copied and circulated by Thomas Birch |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | The writer of the preface takes up the cudgels for Centlivre in feminist style, dwelling on the obstacles she faced as a woman, and invoking the achievements of other women like Anne Dacier
, May Drummond |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | Following the renunciation of her love for George Berkeley
, it seems that CT
wrote a series of at least ten poems of passionate feeling. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 117 |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | By 1912 VW
had published on Margaret Cavendish
(as Duchess of Newcastle), Ann, Lady Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Carter
, Anna Seward
, Elizabeth, Lady Holland
, Maria Edgeworth
, Lady Hester Stanhope
, theBrontë |
Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their... |
Textual Production | Mary Masters | She had been writing and gathering the material here for at least ten years. The volume was printed for the Author, and dedicated to Lord Burlington
(who subscribed for eight copies). Its publication was... |
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