Author:Elizabeth Carter

Elizabeth Carter
(1717–1806)

Elizabeth Carter

Works

• Poems upon Particular Occasions (1738)
• Poems upon Several 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) (Vol. 1, Vol. 2)

• An examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on man (1739), by Jean-Pierre de Crousaz IA
• 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

• Memoirs of the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter (1807) by Montagu Pennington IA
• "Carter, Elizabeth" in A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography (1857)
• "Carter, Elizabeth," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Elizabeth Carter," in Men of Kent and Kentishmen (pp. 29−30), by John Hutchinson, Canterbury: Cross & Jackman (1892)
• A Woman of Wit and Wisdom (1906), by Alice C. C. Gaussen IA
• "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)