Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | EC
issued, through Cave
, in a small number of copies intended purely for friends and patrons, a slim quarto bearing her name: Poems upon Particular Occasions. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 51 Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe. |
Publishing | Mary Masters | This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press. 1: 409-10 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Carter | Her connection with the Gentleman's Magazine was nothing like a modern job with set hours, duties, and remuneration. Edward Cave
, its founder and proprietor, was her father's friend; she had submitted poetry to the... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Carter | Joseph Highmore
painted EC
in about 1738, holding a book in her hand and about to be crowned with a laurel wreath. This picture seems to be related to Samuel Johnson
's poem To Eliza... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Brereton | Cave
seems thus to have inspired JB
to write the second major poem in her publication of October 1735—Merlin: A Poem . . . To which is added, The Royal Hermitage: A Poem—though... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Brereton | In her youth JB
knew |
Friends, Associates | Mary Masters | Among the households where she lived were those of Elizabeth Carter
(who sometimes read her work and discussed it with her) and of Edward Cave
(the proprietor of the Gentleman's Magazine). It was Carter... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Cave | He then began writing An Epistle to the Inhabitants of Gillingham, in the county of Dorset: wherein is a looking-glass for the faithful, which he did not finish until 1781, by which time he... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Katharine Elwood | AKE
's maternal grandmother, Mary (Jacob) Barrett
, was a Kentish woman who had been a friend of the bluestocking Elizabeth Carter
, while her husband belonged (possibly through her) to Carter's literary circle, and... |
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