Carter, Elizabeth (1717 - 1806)
Short name | Carter, Elizabeth |
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First name | Elizabeth |
Birth name | Carter |
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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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Aristocratic title | - |
Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
Carter, Elizabeth was ...
related to | Mary Collyer |
related to | Hunter, Anne |
related to | Vesey, Elizabeth |
related to | Montagu, Elizabeth |
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Memberships | Blue Stockings Society |
Place(s) of Residence | England |
Receptions of Carter, Elizabeth, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title | Author | Date | Type |
Engelske forfatterinder (English Authoresses) [by Erik F.B. Horn] | [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] | 1858 | comments on person |
Clever Girls of Our Time: And how They Became Famous Women | Joseph Johnson | 1862 | is biography of |
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)
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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