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By carefully guarding a moral reputation and insisting on self-effacing modesty, Carter in fact undermined prejudice and resistance to female literature from within the patriarchal bastions. Equally, recent recognition of a less radical feminist tradition in the eighteenth century, supports this thesis' proposition that Carter in fact contributed significantly to the evolution of a female right to education and independent literature. A fertile interaction between her conscientious, domestic duty pitted against her literary, scholarly urge is demonstrated. Considering recent re-appreciation of letter-writing as art, Carter's correspondence is shown to be diverse and entertaining. While not ignoring those aspects which gained her such respect and renown in her own day (her extraordinary scholarly proficiency gained without institutional help, her competent translation of the entire extant work of Epictetus, her rather romantic pious poetry), this thesis also examines more topical matters. Based on her massive private correspondence, contemporary journals and letters as well as the rather jaundiced Memoirs written by Carter's nephew, this biography aims to set Carter in a social, historical and literary context in a factual manner. A final chapter examines Carter's work and person thematically, focusing especially on her previously largely ignored literary contribution as epistolary author and on her fundamental feminist bias and influence. The major developments, events and phases, such as her short but intensive period on the Gentleman's Magazine alongside Samuel Johnson, or her major if submerged contribution to the early basbleu circle, are covered. This thesis presents the life of Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806), letter-writer, poet, translator, scholar and bluestocking.

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