Poems on Several Occasions.
[Carter, Elizabeth.] Poems on Several Occasions. The third edition. London: Printed for John, Francis and Charles Rivington…, 1776.
12mo.; signed on the title page, “P. Vernon 1779”; bookplates on front endpapers (Carol and Dena Johnson; Arturi Philippi Lloyd); early engraved portrait of Carter tipped-in; slightly later three quarter calf, spine stamped in brown and gilt, marbled boards. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
Third edition of this collection of poetry and two contributions to The Rambler (on religion, and on country life), by one of the most notable intellectual English women of the 18th century; dedicated to the Earl of Bath.
Carter (1717-1806), a linguist, translator, and poet, was educated by her clergyman father. She began contributing to the Gentleman’s Magazine as “Eliza” in 1734, and made her first contribution to The Rambler four years later, after meeting Dr. Johnson. Popular through the next two decades, she published her last serious, and most acclaimed work—a translation of Epictetus—in 1858. Despite her “extreme partiality for writers of her own sex,” believing that the mental powers of women were underrated, she “highly disapproved” of the writings of Charlotte Smith and she detested Mary Wollstonecraft’s “wild theory” about the rights of women.
CBEL II, p. 842.
Eighteenth Century Women Poets, by Roger Lonsdale, Oxford: Oxord University Press, 1989, pp. 163-71.
Romantic Poetry by Women, by J.R. de J. Jackson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, p. 52
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