Among the households where she lived were those of Elizabeth Carter
(who sometimes read her work and discussed it with her) and of Edward Cave
(the proprietor of the Gentleman's Magazine). It was Carter...
Health
Elizabeth Carter
EC
suffered for most of her life from severe headaches. Her nephew-biographer Montagu Pennington
associated these with her early studies; but more likely they began during her first extended visit to London. She saw exercise...
Publishing
Catherine Talbot
The seventh edition, 1809, included additions and a memoir by Carter's nephew Montagu Pennington
, who had edited and published the two women's Letters.
Publishing
Sarah Pearson
Subscribers included members of the Fitzwilliam family (that of Pearson's patron
),
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. 16 May 2016.
plus several from the wider literary world: Elizabeth Carter
, her nephew Montagu Pennington
, and the obscure novelist Mrs Carver
, who...
Textual Features
Melesina Trench
About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT
's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event.
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Second edition, revised, Parker and Bourn, 1862.
18
Later pages mix letters...
Textual Production
Anne Hunter
New poems by AH
continued to make their way into print, along with new collections which drew on her already-published work. In 1804 there appeared as a song-sheet her A New Ballad, entitled and call'd...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
EC
's nephew Montagu Pennington
included with his Memoirs of her the fullest selection yet of her poems, and some essays.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
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.
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
EC
's nephew Montagu Pennington
followed his first collection of her letters with another, of her correspondence with her almost lifelong friend Elizabeth Montagu
(whose name he bore, as her godson).
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
249
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.
130
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.
1: 311, 335
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Texts
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.
Carter, Elizabeth. Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Montagu. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1817, 3 vols.
Pennington, Montagu, and Elizabeth Carter. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter. F. C. and J. Rivington, 1807.