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Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806

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Personal name headingCarter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806
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Variant(s)Carter, Elizabeth (Translator)
Other standard no.0000 0000 8148 1985
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Q4216193
Birth date1717
Death date1806
Place of birthDeal (England)
Place of deathLondon (England)
Profession or occupationTranslators Poets Writers
Found inGaussen, A. b. b. A woman of wit & wisdom ... 1906.
Jack, Belinda. Reading: a very short introduction, 2019: page 100 (Elizabeth Carter, a highly-educated clergyman's daughter, set about translating works to which she felt women readers ignorant of the classics or the European languages should have access. A best-selling example of her work was Newtonianism for women, published 1737; a translation of Francesco Algarotti's Il Newtonianismo per le dame)
Wikipedia, 3 May 2024 (Elizabeth Carter (pen name Eliza), born 16 December 1717 in Deal, Kent, England, died 19 February 1806 in London, England, aged 88: an English poet, classicist, writer, translator, linguist, and polymath)
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Associated languageeng lat fre