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 |
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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, 1990. 76, 78 |
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, 1992. 14 |
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 | 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 | Anne Hunter | Among Anne's personal friends and guests at her gatherings were Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Delany
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Hester Thrale
, her niece by marriage Joanna Baillie
(whom she first met when Baillie came... |
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 | Ann Radcliffe | Henrietta Maria Bowdler
, who must already have known AR
socially, wrote to tell her that Elizabeth Carter
very much wished to be introduced; Radcliffe declined. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 182-3 |
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 | Jane Brereton | In her youth JB
knew |
Friends, Associates | Mary Collyer | MC
knew Elizabeth Carter
slightly before her marriage, and was a friend of Samuel Richardson
. Carter wrote of her to Elizabeth Montagu
and as an author she also met other Bluestockings, becoming particularly... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Trimmer | She corresponded with Jane West
, Elizabeth Carter
, and Hannah More
. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. under West Balfour, Clara. A Sketch of Mrs. Trimmer. W. and F. G. Cash, 1854. |
Friends, Associates | Anna Miller | Anna Riggs (later |
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 | 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, 1990. 171 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
observed to Elizabeth Carter
that their faces and character-sketches were now circulated in all kinds of popular media. Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000. 101 |
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