Elizabeth Carter
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Standard Name: Carter, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Carter
Nickname: Mrs Carter
Used Form: A Lady
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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 still current into the twentieth century. She was also a poet and a delightful letter-writer.
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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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
's correspondence during the years 1827-39, when she was composing her Introductory Anecdotes on her grandmother, throws much light on attitudes to female authorship. Selections includes her acute, even satirical, comment on the Bluestockings... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hester Mulso Chapone | The essay conceals a serious argument about people who miss their vocation in life under the carefully light-hearted guise of a dream-vision about Jupiter taking pity on such people and redirecting them. It makes a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT
's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event. Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn. 18 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Her selection of subjects is interesting and original. Her six are the English scholar and translator Elizabeth Carter
, the Hanoverian (English by adoption) astronomer Caroline Herschel
, the Dutch explorer of Africa Alexandrine Tinné |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Fidelia | In the former she defends and praises Fido ( |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Mary Walker | The title character, Eliza de Crui, sets the tone for discussion by writing from Brussels to Mrs Pierpont at Liège with the remark that, since it is so hard to say anything new, she will... |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | Elizabeth Carter
published CT
's posthumous Works. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Katherine Philips | Another poem, dates five months after To my excellent Lucasia, marked Anne Owen's receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society. Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books. 1: 101 |
Textual Production | Sarah Dixon | SD
's subscription for her book of poems must have been nearly complete when Elizabeth Carter
wrote to Edward Cave
asking for any leftover copies of the proposals. Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press. 236 n6 |
Textual Production | Eleanor Anne Porden | In general, EAP
felt that poetic powers seldom contributed to the happiness of a female. Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, p. various pages. 105 Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, p. various pages. 106 |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | CT
carefully kept her green book full of manuscript essays, meditations, poems, dialogues, allegories and prose pastorals, in what she called her considering drawer. Her friend Elizabeth Carter
urged her to publish, but without... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 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. It was a long... |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | CT
was, like most of her contemporaries, an assiduous and entertaining correspondent. Letters that she wrote to Jemima Campbell (later Lady Grey)
and Lady Mary Grey (later Gregory)
were copied and circulated by Thomas Birch |
Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams |
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