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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Publishing | Jane Brereton | The book was issued in two formats, octavo and quarto. An Advertisement identified JB
as the Gentleman's Magazine's Melissa. Subscribers included Thomas Birch
and Elizabeth Carter
. It reprinted other contributions besides those of... |
Reception | Fidelia | Over the next couple of months came further poems by Elizabeth Carter
, Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735): 379 Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735) 382 |
Reception | Jane Brereton | This poem brought a whole clutch of replies: from Fido ( Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735): 255-6, 259 |
Reception | Jane West | JW
was well-known as a productive writer who nevertheless put out a great deal of domestic labour. Jane Austen
, marvelling at her sister's time management skills, remarked: how good Mrs. West cd [sic] have... |
Residence | Anna Miller | In 1754 Anna Riggs (later |
Textual Features | Eva Gore-Booth | Several of these poems concern people and places that figured significantly in her recent experiences. EGB
dedicated The Travellers to E.G.R.; it recalls her first meeting with Esther Roper
, who was to be... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Montagu | The letters of EM
's youth—to the Duchess of Portland
and to her sister Sarah Scott
—are sparkling, irreverent, and inventive. Some of these were conveyed via Elizabeth Elstob
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Features | Dorothea Du Bois | After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck
, Mary Barber |
Textual Features | Mary Wollstonecraft | Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 501 |
Textual Features | Tabitha Tenney | Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone
, John Aikin
and Anna Letitia Barbauld
(Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson
, Elizabeth Carter
, Hester Thrale
,... |
Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Epictetus was both a slave and a cripple. His philosophy, which insisted on the mind's capacity to rise above adverse circumstances, held considerable appeal for women writers of this period. (The best-known translation was that... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson | This collection of personal writing includes occasional poems, pastorals, burlesques, ambitious longer pieces, and The Choice of Life (which precedes Johnson
's Rasselas). Notes and an index which she later supplied to this volume... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
Textual Features | Jane Johnson | The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison
had famously rendered as The spacious... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The Philips poem explicitly ranks friendship above marriage, since the latter relationship may be polluted by Lust, design, or some unworthy ends. Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books. 1: 150 |
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