Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Catherine Talbot
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Standard Name: Talbot, Catherine
Birth Name: Catherine Talbot
Pseudonym: T.
Pseudonym: Sunday
Pseudonym: M.
CT
was a member of the eighteenth-century Bluestocking group. Most remarkable among her poetry and prose (essays and other non-fiction pieces, a fairy story and letters) are the poems of love and loss which have been only recently rediscovered.
EC
wrote a playfully hyperbolic account to the astronomer Thomas Wright
of her longing to meet Catherine Talbot
; the two women met some days later.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Carter, Elizabeth, and Catherine Talbot. A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1809, 4 vols.
1: 2, 12
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Carter
EC
celebrated, in a letter to Catherine Talbot
, the anniversary of their first meeting.
Carter, Elizabeth, and Catherine Talbot. A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1809, 4 vols.
1: 12-13
Friends, Associates
Anna Williams
Williams enjoyed cordial relations with other members of Johnson's circle, like Elizabeth Carter
(who helped with subscriptions for Williams's book when Johnson was dragging his feet) and Hester Thrale
(who contributed). Carter counted her a...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Montagu
The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually...
MC
knew Elizabeth Carter
slightly before her marriage, and was a friend of Samuel Richardson
. Carter wrote of her to Elizabeth Montagu
and as an author she also met other Bluestockings, becoming particularly...
Friends, Associates
Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Lady Hertford wrote that a certain distrust of her own judgement made her slow in the choice of a friend; but when that choice is made, my attachments are too strong to be easily broken...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Ann Kelty
After a preface on the subject of religion in fiction, an introductory chapter announces (though it anticipates the reader may lose interest here) that the narrator of the novel is to be a spinster of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW
has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater
are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace
, Swift
, and Coleridge
Intertextuality and Influence
Susanna Watts
At the outset the sisters are faced with the big question about slavery: What can I do for the cause?
Watts, Susanna. The Humming Bird. I. Cockshaw, 1-2.
4
They reply firmly that everybody can do something: boycott sugar and educate others. They...
Literary responses
Sarah Fielding
The novel was well reviewed. Elizabeth Carter
and Catherine Talbot
read it and speculated about Fielding as author. Mary Ann Radcliffe
cited it in The Female Advocate in 1799.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Female Advocate. Verner and Hood, 1799.
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Literary responses
Mary Jones
Catherine Talbot
found Holt Waters and A Letter to Doctor Pitt indelicate and was surprised that Carter
liked MJ
's poetry.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
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The collection was warmly praised by Ralph Griffiths
in the Monthly Review:...
Literary responses
Catharine Trotter
She was, however, more than any other woman writer, an important influence on the Bluestockings and their thinking about morality, religion, and gender.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Catherine Talbot
, for one, strongly agreed with Birch in an...
Literary responses
Jane Squire
Elizabeth Carter
wrestled with this book, driving herself half mad to find out the meaning of it and telling Catherine Talbot
she was enraged at her own stupidity. Pope Benedict XIV
, to whom a...
Literary responses
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Notices in the British Review and other English journals were fairly appreciative, but quick to compliment British women writers at the expense of the French, as if the book had been a challenge to their...
Timeline
1741, 1743: A private edition of ten copies (only) was...
Writing climate item
1741, 1743
A private edition of ten copies (only) was published of Athenian Letters or, the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war, written by Philip Yorke (later Lord Hardwicke)
7 November 1752-9 March 1754: The self-educated John Hawkesworth edited...
Writing climate item
7 November 1752-9 March 1754
The self-educated John Hawkesworth
edited and published an essay-periodical called the Adventurer, on the model of Johnson
's Rambler.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
22 September 1761: King George III and Queen Charlotte were...
Talbot, Catherine. “A Letter to a New-born Child”. The Universal Magazine, pp. 268-9.
Carter, Elizabeth, and Catherine Talbot. A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1808, 2 vols.
Carter, Elizabeth, and Catherine Talbot. A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1809, 4 vols.
Talbot, Catherine. Essays on Various Subjects. John and Francis Rivington, 1772, 2 vols.
Talbot, Catherine. Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week. John and Francis Rivington, 1770.
Talbot, Catherine. The Works of the late Mrs. Catharine Talbot. John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1780.
