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.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 |
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... |
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 | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Elliott | While some of these poems, such as It is not known that I am married, anticipate her later religious emphasis, they are mainly lighthearted and secular. All CE
's verses are referred to in... |
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 |
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