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.
EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
EC
had promised Catherine Talbot
that she would undertake the project of making a scholarly translation of the Enchiridion by Epictetus
.
This work of ancient Greek stoic philosophy was something of a favourite with...
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
With only six people besides Johnson appearing in The Rambler, EC
's two papers are the largest outside contribution. The six also include Catherine Talbot
and Hester Mulso Chapone
. A second essay by...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
EC
worked at her translation for several years. She consulted widely about details of linguistic and contextual information, accessing the advice of both her friend Catherine Talbot
and Talbot's foster-father Archbishop Secker
(though she declined...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
After the death of EC
's great friend Catherine Talbot
, Carter saw through the press first Talbot's Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, 1770, and then her Essays on Various Subjects, 1772.
Textual Features
Elizabeth Carter
As a youngster of twenty-one (in May 1739), EC
addressed the eminent businessman Edward Cavebreezily, mingling the domestic and the literary.
Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6.
63
In her mature correspondence with Elizabeth Montagu
both writers discuss their...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Carter
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.
68
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.
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.
1: 12-13
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
Catherine Talbot
suggested to EC
that she might offer Robert Dodsley
some poems, anonymously, for inclusion in the forthcoming fourth volume of his very popular Collection of Poems.
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.
2: 200-1
Publishing
Hester Mulso Chapone
In the year of her Letter to a New-Married Lady, HMC
said she published in order to appease that uneasy sense of helplessness and insignificancy in society, which has often depressed and afflicted me...
Friends, Associates
Mary Collyer
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...
Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14.
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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.
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.
Talbot, Catherine. Essays on Various Subjects. John and Francis Rivington, 1772.
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.