Born: 16 December 1717, United Kingdom
Died: 19 February 1806
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: NA
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Elizabeth Carter, an English writer of various books of prose and verse, whose poetry exhibits much tenderness, simplicity of sentiment, and expressive sweetness.
She is, however, chiefly remembered for her admirable translation of Epictetus, the first that appear in English.
Miss Carter was a ripe Greek and Latin scholar, and among her friends were the distinguished men of her time – Dr. Johnson, Burke, Garrick and Horace Walpole.
She lived to be eighty-eight and retained the vigor of her intellect and the clearness of her judgment unimpaired till the end.
IW note: Carter was also a naturalist who studied astronomy and mathematics, and a member of the intellectual Bluestockings group. She translated Algarotti’s Il Newtonianismo per le dame to English, titled Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies in Six Dialogues on Light and Colours.