Melanie Bigold. Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century: Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter. Romanticism and Cultures of Print series. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 312. $90.00 (cloth).

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-198
Author(s):  
Amy Culley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Elizabeth Carter ◽  
Women Of Letters

Going Public

2013 ◽  
pp. 102-145
Author(s):  
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Going Public ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Writing Culture ◽  
Women Of Letters

This chapter investigates the literary activity of enlightened Jewish women, discussing their attitudes towards authorship and what the crucial decision to publish their writings meant in the context of their time. As female authors, these Jewish women of letters were part of a broader phenomenon in contemporary Europe. Throughout the eighteenth century and especially towards its end, a female writing culture was developing simultaneously in various lands. Although the pace and nature of this literary expansion differed from place to place, depending on specific local conditions, countries including Germany, France, and England all saw a dramatic increase in the number of women active in the field of literature. The chapter then looks at the literary careers and the attitudes towards publishing of four of the Jewish women writers from the period, namely Esther Gad, Dorothea Mendelssohn, Rahel Levin, and Sara Meyer.

scholarly journals A Marginal(ized) Perspective on Translation History: Women and Translation in the Eighteenth Century

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 817-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirella Agorni
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Elizabeth Carter ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Original Approach

Abstract Translation was a prestigious activity in Britain in the Eighteenth Century, and the field was divided into two distinct areas: translation from the classics (focusing on Latin and Greek authors) which was a male-dominated territory, and translation from modern languages (French, German, Italian and Spanish) which was one of the few literary genres open to women. Yet, there were some significant exceptions in the area of the classics. I will analyze the case of Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806), the celebrated translator of Epictetus from the Greek, who developed a particularly original approach to translation, by adopting an ingenious form of proto-feminist collaboration with her friend Catherine Talbot (1721-70).

scholarly journals MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS: MARRIED WOMEN AND CREDIT IN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 53-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Shepard
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
Elizabeth Carter ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century

ABSTRACTTaking a micro-historical approach, this paper explores the business activities of Elizabeth Carter and Elizabeth Hatchett, two married women who operated together as pawnbrokers in London in the early decades of the eighteenth century. Based on a protracted inheritance dispute through which their extensive dealings come to light, the discussion assesses married women's lending and investment strategies in a burgeoning metropolitan economy; the networks through which women lenders operated; and the extent to which wives could sidestep the legal conventions of ‘coverture’ which restricted their ownership of moveable property. It is argued that the moneylending and asset management activities of women like Carter and Hatchett were an important part of married women's work that did not simply consolidate neighbourhood ties but that placed them at the heart of the early modern economy.

The 'Other' Eighteenth Century: English Women of Letters 1660-1800

1993 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 950
Author(s):  
Carolyn D. Williams ◽  
Robert W. Uphaus ◽  
Gretchen M. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women Of Letters
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