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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Elizabeth Carter
was Lady Spencer's mentor on religion and reassured her that her high social station made it necessary, even meritorious, to be to a large extent worldly. The Althorp MSS at the British Library |
| Travel | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Separated from her siblings as well as her parents, she felt abandoned, although she loved her grandmother. The experience seems to have marked her, leaving her insecure and over-anxious to please. After the birth and... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
| Publishing | Fidelia | The Gentleman's Magazine printed a poem to Fidelia
by Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735): 255 Barker, Anthony. “Poetry from the Provinces: Amateur Poets in the Gentleman’s Magazine in the 1730s and 1740s”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, pp. 241-56. 254 |
| 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... |
| Reception | Fidelia | Over the next couple of months came further poems by Elizabeth Carter
, Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735): 379 Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735) 382 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Fidelia | In the former she defends and praises Fido ( |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson | This collection of personal writing includes occasional poems, pastorals, burlesques, ambitious longer pieces, and The Choice of Life (which precedes Johnson
's Rasselas). Notes and an index which she later supplied to this volume... |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Katharine Elwood | AKE
's maternal grandmother, Mary (Jacob) Barrett
, was a Kentish woman who had been a friend of the bluestocking Elizabeth Carter
, while her husband belonged (possibly through her) to Carter's literary circle, and... |
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