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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Samuel Johnson | SJ
contributed essays to John Hawkesworth
's periodical The Adventurer (whose contributors also included Catherine Talbot
, Hester Mulso (later Chapone)
, and Jane Warton
). Johnson, Samuel. The Idler; and, The Adventurer. Editors Bate, Walter Jackson et al., Yale University Press. 339, 492 |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Frances Thynne, later Hertford, began letter-writing at an early age. She was eleven when her grandfather
was glad to find her in an hopeful way of being a good scribe, Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan. 7 |
Literary responses | Sarah Fielding | Samuel Richardson
respected The Cry as a new Species of Writing, sent copies to two friends (Sophia Wescomb
and Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh
), and wanted it to go into a second edition— Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14. 13 |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
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. 91n |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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