Author:Elizabeth Carter

Elizabeth Carter
(1717–1806)

Elizabeth Carter

Works

• Poems upon Particular Occasions (1738)
• Poems upon Particular Occasions (1762)
• A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catharine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770, to which are added Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey between the years 1763 and 1787 (1809), in 4 vols.
• Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Montagu, between the years 1755 and 1800, chiefly upon Literary and Moral Subjects (1817), in 3 vols.

Translations

• Il newtonianismo per le dame (1737), by Francesco Algarotti

{tr} Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy explained for the use of the Ladies, in six Dialogues on Light and Colour (1739)

• An examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on man {1739), by Jean-Pierre de Crousaz [1]
• All the works of Epictetus: which are now extant; consisting of his Discourses, preserved by Arrian, in four books, the Enchiridion, and fragments (1758) (transcription project)

Works about Carter

• "Carter, Elizabeth," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "A Woman of Wit and Wisdom" (1906), by Alice C. C. Gaussen
• "Carter, Elizabeth," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Carter, Elizabeth," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• Memoirs of the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter (1807) by Montagu Pennington [2]
• "Elizabeth Carter," in Men of Kent and Kentishmen (pp. 29−30), by John Hutchinson, Canterbury: Cross & Jackman (1892)