Epictetus

With her husband CM lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan after she had become a writer. She subscribed to Elizabeth Carter 's translation of Epictetus . Of her radical friends Thomas Hollis

Having laid out her case, AMS proceeds to summarise and refute that of her Adversaries. These she classifies as the utilitarian (who value learning purely for its cash or career value) and the envious...

The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron 's Childe Harold. An Apology closing the volume speaks of SWM 's disappointments and distresses (which are often mentioned, though unspecified, in her work) especially...

Aikin found it deplorable that Barbauld had left so many pieces unfinished. She omitted from her edition a good deal of both prose and poetry, but included such crucial unpublished works as the childbirth...

She apparently began by allotting so many pages to each letter of the alphabet, and it seems she could have continued collecting longer than she did, since at the end of her notes under A...

This very pleasing portrait shows her with strong face and steady gaze, wearing classical dress, with pen in hand and her Epictetus volume visible. It now hangs in Johnson's House in Gough Square, London....

The Bookman review was almost ecstatic about this happy and . . . brilliant book. Picking up Fleming's tongue-in-cheek manner here, it praised her for depths of philosophy. All readers would benefit, it said, whether...

EC 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...

EC published her scholarly translation of All the Works of Epictetus, by subscription, as a handsome folio printed by Samuel Richardson .

This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...

Lady Mary Pierrepont (later LMWM ) spent a week translating into English prose the Enchiridion of Epictetus .

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.

EC had promised Catherine Talbot that she would undertake the project of making a scholarly translation of the Enchiridion by Epictetus .

EC declared that she had finished translating Epictetus (not merely his Enchiridion but his complete works)—though she needed still to write a biography of him and an essay on Stoic philosophy.

Contemporary witnesses suggested that the couple had also worked together on Sophocles , Euripides , Plutarch , Epictetus , and Plato . According to recent critics, their sharing of their scholarly work without compromising the...