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.
Colour photograph of an oval miniature of Catherine Talbot by Christian Friedrich Zincke. She is seen from the shoulders up, against a pale blue background. She is wearing a white bodice with a lace-trimmed square neckline, blue lacing, and two blue bows. Her curly dark hair is pulled loosely back and decorated with a blue bow or flower. On the back is inscribed "Catherine Talbot. / celebrated / for her genius and piety. / died unmarried. / 1770./ Zincke."

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Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
EC had promised Catherine Talbot that she would undertake the project of making a scholarly translation of the Enchiridion by Epictetus .
This work of ancient Greek stoic philosophy was something of a favourite with...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
Her nephew Montagu Pennington collected and edited three volumes of of EC 's letters to Catherine Talbot and Elizabeth Vesey .
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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.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Katharine Elwood
Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi

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