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.
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Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
With only six people besides Johnson appearing in The Rambler, EC
's two papers are the largest outside contribution. The six also include Catherine Talbot
and Hester Mulso Chapone
. A second essay by...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
EC
worked at her translation for several years. She consulted widely about details of linguistic and contextual information, accessing the advice of both her friend Catherine Talbot
and Talbot's foster-father Archbishop Secker
(though she declined...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
After the death of EC
's great friend Catherine Talbot
, Carter saw through the press first Talbot's Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, 1770, and then her Essays on Various Subjects, 1772.
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
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Frances Thynne, later Hertford, began letter-writing at an early age. She was eleven when her grandfather
was glad to find her in an hopeful way of being a good scribe,
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan.
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and twelve when her...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
Catherine Talbot
suggested to EC
that she might offer Robert Dodsley
some poems, anonymously, for inclusion in the forthcoming fourth volume of his very popular Collection of Poems.
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.
2: 200-1
Textual Features
Elizabeth Carter
As a youngster of twenty-one (in May 1739), EC
addressed the eminent businessman Edward Cavebreezily, mingling the domestic and the literary.
Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6.
63
In her mature correspondence with Elizabeth Montagu
both writers discuss their...
EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of...
Textual Features
Mary Wollstonecraft
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...
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...
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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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.