Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Catherine Talbot
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Standard Name: Talbot, Catherine
Birth Name: Catherine Talbot
Pseudonym: T.
Pseudonym: Sunday
Pseudonym: M.
CT
was a member of the eighteenth-century Bluestocking group. Most remarkable among her poetry and prose (essays and other non-fiction pieces, a fairy story and letters) are the poems of love and loss which have been only recently rediscovered.
Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible),
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
501
this book is feminist in its emphasis on the virtue of independent judgement as...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW
has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater
are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace
, Swift
, and Coleridge
Friends, Associates
Anna Williams
Williams enjoyed cordial relations with other members of Johnson's circle, like Elizabeth Carter
(who helped with subscriptions for Williams's book when Johnson was dragging his feet) and Hester Thrale
(who contributed). Carter counted her a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Susanna Watts
At the outset the sisters are faced with the big question about slavery: What can I do for the cause?
Watts, Susanna. The Humming Bird. I. Cockshaw.
4
They reply firmly that everybody can do something: boycott sugar and educate others. They...
Literary responses
Catharine Trotter
She was, however, more than any other woman writer, an important influence on the Bluestockings and their thinking about morality, religion, and gender.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press.
56
Catherine Talbot
, for one, strongly agreed with Birch in an...
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...
Literary responses
Jane Squire
Elizabeth Carter
wrestled with this book, driving herself half mad to find out the meaning of it and telling Catherine Talbot
she was enraged at her own stupidity. Pope Benedict XIV
, to whom a...
Reception
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
One of those who read this letter-book was the Bluestocking Catherine Talbot
in 1753; another was Rowe herself, years after she had written the earlier letters in it.
Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 1, pp. 1-14.
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Other Life Event
Teresia Constantia Phillips
Dr Henchman argued that the other side's multiplication of the main issue into innumerable subsidiary points, each requiring many witnesses, ensured the case such longevity that the youngest man here will never live to see...
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...
Reception
Charlotte Lennox
Reviews were excellent, partly on account of the interest of the subject-matter (which Catherine Talbot
for one had found riveting). Johnson
in the Literary Review explicitly praised the style as well.
Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press.
149-50
In January 1757...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Ann Kelty
After a preface on the subject of religion in fiction, an introductory chapter announces (though it anticipates the reader may lose interest here) that the narrator of the novel is to be a spinster of...
Publishing
Mary Jones
This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later...
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
The collection was warmly praised by Ralph Griffiths
in the Monthly Review:...
Timeline
1741, 1743: A private edition of ten copies (only) was...
Writing climate item
1741, 1743
A private edition of ten copies (only) was published of Athenian Letters or, the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war, written by Philip Yorke (later Lord Hardwicke)
7 November 1752-9 March 1754: The self-educated John Hawkesworth edited...
Writing climate item
7 November 1752-9 March 1754
The self-educated John Hawkesworth
edited and published an essay-periodical called the Adventurer, on the model of Johnson
's Rambler.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
22 September 1761: King George III and Queen Charlotte were...
Talbot, Catherine. “A Letter to a New-born Child”. The Universal Magazine, pp. 268-9.
Carter, Elizabeth, and Catherine Talbot. A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1808.
Carter, Elizabeth, and Catherine Talbot. A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1809.
Talbot, Catherine. Essays on Various Subjects. John and Francis Rivington, 1772.
Talbot, Catherine. Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week. John and Francis Rivington, 1770.
Talbot, Catherine. The Works of the late Mrs. Catharine Talbot. John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1780.
