| Short name |
Elizabeth Carter |
| VIAF |
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| First name |
Elizabeth |
| Maiden name |
|
| Married name |
|
| Date of birth |
1717 |
| Date of death |
1806 |
| Flourishing |
- |
| Sex |
Female |
| Place of birth |
Deal (Kent) |
| Place of death |
- |
| Lived in |
England
|
| 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 |
Mention_in_PamelaL.Cheek,Heroines-and-Local-Girls_2019
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 |