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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Anna Williams | Williams enjoyed cordial relations with other members of Johnson's circle, like Elizabeth Carter
(who helped with subscriptions for Williams's book when Johnson was dragging his feet) and Hester Thrale
(who contributed). Carter counted her a... |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | With her husband CM
lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan
after she had become a writer. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 14 |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | During this trip, AG
met Elizabeth Carter
, on 16 May 1805. She enjoyed Carter's sense of humour (just the kind, she said, that appealed to her), though she was later surprised (by this time... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Their initial friendship seems to have cooled slightly, but ALB
wrote Chapone's obituary, as well as that of a Chapone brother. She also met at about the same time Elizabeth Carter
, Sarah Scott
... |
| Friends, Associates | Hester Mulso Chapone | Hester Mulso
, while visiting her aunt at Canterbury, met Elizabeth Carter
there. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 76, 78 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Harcourt | MH
and her husband
subscribed in 1803 to Poems by the widowed Mrs George Sewell (Mary Sewell)
. Other subscribers included Elizabeth Carter
, Elizabeth Cobbold
, Catherine Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Arabella Rowden |
| Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Miller | Anna Riggs (later |
| Friends, Associates | Catherine Talbot | CT
first met Elizabeth Carter
, after hearing her praises sung by the scientist Thomas Wright
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 68 |
| Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Trimmer | She corresponded with Jane West
, Elizabeth Carter
, and Hannah More
. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. under West Balfour, Clara. A Sketch of Mrs. Trimmer. W. and F. G. Cash. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
sought out Elizabeth Carter
after the publication of Carter's Epictetus. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 171 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
judged Anna Seward
to be greedy for flattery, especially from the opposite sex. In 1799 she met Hannah More
, who was then at the height of her fame and to whom admittance was... |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Brereton | In her youth JB
knew |
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