Elizabeth Carter

He wrote that "[my] old friend Mrs Carter could make a pudding [just] as well as translate Epictetus. Elizabeth Carter (16 December 1717 – 19 February 1806) was an English poet classicist writer and translator and a member of the Bluestocking Circle. ")


Cultural influence
Elizabeth Gaskell the nineteenth century novelist refers to Carter as an epistolatory model bracketing her in Cranford with Hester Chapone a self-taught Bluestocking.