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.
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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 | 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 | Helen Maria Williams | |
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 | 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 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 | 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 | Mariana Starke | Her preface says the translation was first suggested to her by the dowager Lady Spencer
(mother of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
), whom she met in Italy; Lady Spencer also persuaded to her to publish... |
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... |
Textual Production | Susanna Wright | Another of her longer poems, The Grove, is a politically complex, proto-environmentalist statement about the destruction of forest. This fits into a mini-tradition of women's poetry about the cutting down of trees, a topic... |
Textual Production | Hester Mulso Chapone | This was the earliest occasion on which anyone other than Johnson himself wrote any part of the Rambler, a publication which Mulso and Elizabeth Carter
agreed in finding too gloomy in tone. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT
's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event. Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn. 18 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Her selection of subjects is interesting and original. Her six are the English scholar and translator Elizabeth Carter
, the Hanoverian (English by adoption) astronomer Caroline Herschel
, the Dutch explorer of Africa Alexandrine Tinné |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Fidelia | In the former she defends and praises Fido ( |
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