Elizabeth Carter
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Standard Name: Carter, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Carter
Nickname: Mrs Carter
Used Form: A Lady
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 still current into the twentieth century. She was also a poet and a delightful letter-writer.
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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 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Dixon | Perhaps from her time in London, SD
made some literary relationships. She was a good friend of Elizabeth Carter
, and she subscribed to Mary Jones
's Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, published in 1750. Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001. 140 Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993. |
Friends, Associates | Oliver Goldsmith | Goldsmith met and became a friend and associate of Edmund Burke
, Samuel Johnson
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and others belonging to the Club, of which he was a founder member. He was a... |
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 | 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, 1990. 68 |
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 | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
Health | Sarah Scott | During her illness Sarah stayed at Mount Morris, the family home in Kent, while Elizabeth stayed with a neighbour. The smallpox ruined SS
's beauty. Her general health recovered, but she was all her life... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016. 49-50 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Enfield
quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy
. Her volume... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Aikin found it deplorable that Barbauld had left so many pieces unfinished. qtd. in McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 518 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katherine Philips | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron
's Childe Harold. Bottorff, William K., and Sarah Wentworth Morton. “Introduction”. My Mind and its Thoughts, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1975, pp. 5-16. 12 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Thicknesse | AT
makes it clear she is no proto-feminist: If women are thought to possess minds less capable of solid reflection than men, they owe this conjecture entirely to their own vanity, and erroneous method of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Brooke | FB
used her periodical The Old Maid as a forum for praise of poetry by Anne Finch
and Elizabeth Carter
. Finch had also been celebrated in one of the essays in The World which... |
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