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 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...
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, 1930, 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, 1930, p. various pages.
106
She told Mitford, I have, I believe...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
CT was, like most of her contemporaries, an assiduous and entertaining correspondent. Letters that she wrote to Jemima Campbell (later Lady Grey) and Lady Mary Grey (later Gregory) were copied and circulated by Thomas Birch
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, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
1: 101
Another, To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting was reprinted...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Following the renunciation of her love for George Berkeley , it seems that CT wrote a series of at least ten poems of passionate feeling.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
117
She, or more probably Elizabeth Carter acting after her...
Textual Production Mariana Starke
Her preface says the translation was first suggested to her by the dowager Lady Spencer (mother of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ), whom she met in Italy; Lady Spencer also persuaded to her to publish...
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, 2001.
236 n6
Textual Production Susanna Wright
Another of her longer poems, The Grove, is a politically complex, proto-environmentalist statement about the destruction of forest. This fits into a mini-tradition of women's poetry about the cutting down of trees, a topic...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
By 1912 VW had published on Margaret Cavendish (as Duchess of Newcastle), Ann, Lady Fanshawe , Elizabeth Carter , Anna Seward , Elizabeth, Lady Holland , Maria Edgeworth , Lady Hester Stanhope , theBrontë
Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident.
It was a long...
Textual Production Charlotte Smith
It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...
Textual Production Susanna Centlivre
The writer of the preface takes up the cudgels for Centlivre in feminist style, dwelling on the obstacles she faced as a woman, and invoking the achievements of other women like Anne Dacier , May Drummond
Textual Production Helen Maria Williams
This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016.
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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, 5 series.
29 (1770): 478
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Katharine Elwood
Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi

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