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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Textual Production Helen Maria Williams
This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016.
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Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Elizabeth Carter published Essays on Various Subjects by CT , posthumously, as by the author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
33 (1772): 259
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Elizabeth Carter published CT 's posthumous Works.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF sent to Anne Grant are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
Textual Production Hester Mulso Chapone
This was the earliest occasion on which anyone other than Johnson himself wrote any part of the Rambler, a publication which Mulso and Elizabeth Carter agreed in finding too gloomy in tone.
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
This may have been in print before the end of 1738. It had a frontispiece portrait of ESR by George Vertue , which marks her fame with the attributes of crown, laurel, and trumpet.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
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Textual Production Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC contributed a prefatory ode in praise of Elizabeth Carter 's Epictetus, which appeared with it in April 1758.
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 Jane Warton
Her brother Joseph (who had been invited to contribute by Samuel Johnson in March) wrote to her on 26 April beg[ging] your Assistance in giving us some Pictures drawn from real Life. . ....
Textual Production Mary Masters
She had been writing and gathering the material here for at least ten years. The volume was printed for the Author, and dedicated to Lord Burlington (who subscribed for eight copies). Its publication was...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
CT carefully kept her green book full of manuscript essays, meditations, poems, dialogues, allegories and prose pastorals, in what she called her considering drawer. Her friend Elizabeth Carter urged her to publish, but without...
Textual Production Eleanor Anne Porden
In general, EAP felt that poetic powers seldom contributed to the happiness of a female.
Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages.
105
Her own powers, in particular, she considered a dangerous gift.
Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages.
106
She told Mitford, I have, I believe...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
CT was, like most of her contemporaries, an assiduous and entertaining correspondent. Letters that she wrote to Jemima Campbell (later Lady Grey) and Lady Mary Grey (later Gregory) were copied and circulated by Thomas Birch
Textual Production Katherine Philips
Another poem, dates five months after To my excellent Lucasia, marked Anne Owen's receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society.
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
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Another, To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting was reprinted...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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.
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Later pages mix letters...

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