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 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 Hester Mulso Chapone
This was the earliest occasion on which anyone other than Johnson himself wrote any part of the Rambler, a publication which Mulso and Elizabeth Carter agreed in finding too gloomy in tone.
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 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.
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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.
29 (1770): 478
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 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 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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Reynolds
FR pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men.
Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, pp. 2: 250 - 300.
2: 252
She remarks on the paternal affection he entertained...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Grant
This contains autobiographical fragments and insightful comments on other women writers. Objects of AG 's comment include Susan Ferrier , Charlotte Smith (whose poems AG felt to be easy, flowing, and correct, but low on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriette Wilson
Much in this revised and expanded edition is merely scrappy (and some is written by Stockdale), with nuggets strung together by such giveaway phrases as By the bye and To change the subject.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
249
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