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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Literary responses | Elizabeth Montagu | The patriotism of EM
's riposte ensured its enthusiastic reception. Readers (among them a brother of Elizabeth Carter
, who refrained from enlightening him) assumed that the anonymity of this authoritative critical voice concealed a... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Smith | Smith translated various different parts of the Old Testament. Bowdler showed some of some of her versions from Hebrew to a scholar of that language, who assumed that the writer was male and responded... |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Once an omnivorous reader, HM
restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper
as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 90 |
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. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 518 |
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 | 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, pp. 5-16. 12 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katherine Philips | |
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. 49-50 |
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... |
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. 76, 78 |
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 |
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