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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Travel Catherine Talbot
CT , with Archbishop Secker and the usual family party, visited Canterbury, Dover, and Deal, where they stayed with Elizabeth Carter .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
74
Travel Elizabeth Montagu
Her delight in her journey (on which Elizabeth Carter as well as Bath accompanied her) is reflected in the whimsicality of her letters to England about it. She claimed to have seen mermaids as she...
Travel Catherine Talbot
From this point on CT spent part of her time at Canterbury. She often stayed at Percy Lodge (near Iver in Buckinghamshire) with the Duchess of Somerset (formerly Lady Hertford) , and in 1760...
Travel Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Separated from her siblings as well as her parents, she felt abandoned, although she loved her grandmother. The experience seems to have marked her, leaving her insecure and over-anxious to please. After the birth and...
Travel Elizabeth Montagu
EM travelled to Paris with a group which included her nephew Matthew Montagu , Dorothea Gregory , and Elizabeth Carter 's nephew Montagu Pennington .
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
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Montagu
By her marriage EM acquired wealth and improved her social standing. Edward Montagu was a grandson of the first Earl of Sandwich (admiral and patron of Samuel Pepys ). He owned mines in the rapidly-developing...
Wealth and Poverty Anna Williams
This meant that she received the night's profits after the theatre covered its expenses: friends made a special effort to attend or to buy tickets for others. Johnson enlisted in the cause Elizabeth Carter ...

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