TY - BOOK ID - 85465163 TI - Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter : With a New Edition of her Poems, Some of Which Have Never Appeared Before AU - Carter, Elizabeth AU - Pennington, Montagu PY - 1807 SN - 1139060813 1108033865 PB - Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Authors, English KW - Women Intellectuals KW - Authors KW - Great Britain KW - Literary Criticism KW - Social Science KW - Biography & Autobiography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465163 AB - Montagu Pennington (1762-1849) published this account of the life and work of the English poet and classicist Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806) in 1807. Carter first made her name in 1758 through her English translation of the work of the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus, for which she was acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as the 'best Greek scholar in England'. Carter also published numerous essays, articles, and translations and was an influential member of the Blue Stockings Society; later in life, she became an evangelical Christian. This volume vividly recounts her education, life, and scholarly work. Being based on her own personal papers and letters, and containing a number of Carter's poems, notes and articles, the work is an invaluable source for the life of a remarkable eighteenth-century woman. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=cartel ER -