Contents:

1. Personal and family information
   1. Personal information
   2. Family
2. Domicile region and Migration
   1. Place of Birth (Town)
   2. Domicile Region
   3. Migration
3. Social Information
   1. Social Class
   2. Social Mobility
   3. Occupation
4. Education
   1. Formal
   2. Private
   3. Languages known
5. Sources
6. Notes
7. Sent letters
8. Received letters

Personal and family information

Personal information

Family

Domicile region and Migration

Place of Birth (Town)

Domicile Region

Migration

¹ Carter did not marry, and spent most of her lifetime in Deal, Kent, her hometown, and London.

Social Information

Social Class

Social Mobility

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Occupation

Poet, classicist, writer and translator.

Education

Formal

Private

Elizabeth Carter was educated by her farther, who was an accomplished linguist, and the studies concentrated on language and literary studies. To a lesser degree, she studied astronomy and mathematics, Greek history and geography and music. She was also tutored by natural philosopher Thomas Wright.

Languages known

Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.

Sources

Bibliography IDs

Hawley, 2004; Miegon, 2003; Montagu, 1816

Notes

Carter was regarded somewhat of a sensation due to her youth, talent and gender; various literary works celebrated her as a prodigy. Although Carter never married, she had several suitors, such as Thomas Birch, John Dalton and Dr John Burton. Not having married, Carter could devote her life for literary pursuits. Some of Carter's work are such as "Poems on Particular Occasions", which included congratulatory verses to George Lyttelton and was published in 1762, a translation of the French Jean Pierre de Crousaz' "An Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man" and perhaps her most considerable work, a translation from Greek, "All the Works of Epictetus Which Are Now Extant", published in 1758. Carter also assisted both Elizabeth Montagu and Sarah Scott née Robinson with their literary works. In her youth, when Elizabeth Carter had troubles learning, she would go to extreme measures to keep herself awake; she would wrap wet towels around her head, chew green tea and take snuff, to such extent that she became addicted to it.

Sent letters

No letters

Received letters