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.
Portrait of Elizabeth Carter as Minerva, the Greek goddess of wisdom, by John Fayram in probably the late 1730s. She wears gilded metal armour over a white loose shirt and under a blue sash, and a helmet with feathery plume. She is holding in one hand a round shield, in the other a book bound in red, with gilt decoration, which (as Edward Cave revealed in writing her praise) is a copy of Plato. National Portrait Gallery.

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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
this book is feminist in its emphasis on the virtue of independent judgement as...
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 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 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 Production Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC contributed a prefatory ode in praise of Elizabeth Carter 's Epictetus, which appeared with it in April 1758.
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
This may have been in print before the end of 1738. It had a frontispiece portrait of ESR by George Vertue , which marks her fame with the attributes of crown, laurel, and trumpet.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang.
17
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Elizabeth Carter posthumously and anonymously published the first volume by CT to see the light: Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
29 (1770): 478
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Elizabeth Carter published Essays on Various Subjects by CT , posthumously, as by the author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
33 (1772): 259
Textual Production Jane Warton
Her brother Joseph (who had been invited to contribute by Samuel Johnson in March) wrote to her on 26 April beg[ging] your Assistance in giving us some Pictures drawn from real Life. . ....
Textual Production Katherine Philips
Another poem, dates five months after To my excellent Lucasia, marked Anne Owen's receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society.
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books.
1: 101
Another, To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting was reprinted...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Elizabeth Carter published CT 's posthumous Works.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Sarah Dixon
SD 's subscription for her book of poems must have been nearly complete when Elizabeth Carter wrote to Edward Cave asking for any leftover copies of the proposals.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press.
236 n6
Textual Production Eleanor Anne Porden
In general, EAP felt that poetic powers seldom contributed to the happiness of a female.
Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, p. various pages.
105
Her own powers, in particular, she considered a dangerous gift.
Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, p. various pages.
106
She told Mitford, I have, I believe...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
CT carefully kept her green book full of manuscript essays, meditations, poems, dialogues, allegories and prose pastorals, in what she called her considering drawer. Her friend Elizabeth Carter urged her to publish, but without...

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