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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Letitia Barbauld
Aikin found it deplorable that Barbauld had left so many pieces unfinished.
qtd. in
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
518
She omitted from her edition a good deal of both prose and poetry, but included such crucial unpublished works as the childbirth...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
Their initial friendship seems to have cooled slightly, but ALB wrote Chapone's obituary, as well as that of a Chapone brother. She also met at about the same time Elizabeth Carter , Sarah Scott ...
Literary responses Joanna Baillie
Elizabeth Carterfelt a triumph when she learned the author was a woman.
Pennington, Montagu, and Elizabeth Carter. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter. F. C. and J. Rivington, 1807.
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Birth Jane Austen
JA was born at Steventon in Hampshire, a month after her mother had calculated that the birth was due.
This, coincidentally, was the birthday of Elizabeth Carter . Austen's birthplace no longer survives, though...
Family and Intimate relationships Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Elizabeth Carter was Lady Spencer's mentor on religion and reassured her that her high social station made it necessary, even meritorious, to be to a large extent worldly. The Althorp MSS at the British Library
Travel Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Separated from her siblings as well as her parents, she felt abandoned, although she loved her grandmother. The experience seems to have marked her, leaving her insecure and over-anxious to please. After the birth and...
Occupation Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe , Elizabeth Boyd , Elizabeth Carter , Mary Chandler , Isaac Watts , Laurence Eusden (for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson

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