Short name |
Elizabeth Carter |
VIAF |
|
First name |
Elizabeth |
Maiden name |
|
Married name |
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Date of birth |
1717 |
Date of death |
1806 |
Flourishing |
- |
Sex |
Female |
Place of birth |
Deal (Kent) |
Place of death |
- |
Lived in |
England
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Place of residence notes |
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Related to |
Elizabeth Vesey
,
Mary Collyer
,
Elizabeth Montagu
,
Anne Hunter
|
Bibliography |
MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Lives with her father who taught her Latin, Greek and Hebrew [...]". - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, 43 - Stevenson, in Weissbort/Eysteinsson, Translation - Theory and Practice 2009, 142-3 Cf. - Corresp. E.Bekker en A. Deken,dr. P.J. Buijnsters,Utrecht 1987 - Norma Clarke, The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters. 2004 (see under Elstob) |
Provisional Notes |
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Belonged to intellectual elite. Well educated, learning foreign languages: Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew.
The most prominent and most praised learned woman of her time. cf. Harriet Guest, Small Change: Women, Learning and Patriotism, 1750-1810. Chicago/London, Univ. of Chicago press, 2000.
- Translator from Greek, French, Italian
MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p. 43 |