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Elizabeth Carter Brooks
No full textThe first African-American woman hired as a public school teacher in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Carter Brooks was committed to equality. The child of a former slave, she studied diligently at New Bedford High School, the Swain Free School of Design, and the Harrington Normal Training School in New Bedford.
In 1895, as an outgrowth of the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America, the National Federation of Afro-American Women was formed. Mrs. Brooks, then living in Brooklyn, New York, where she taught school, became the first recording secretary. She helped form and then served as president of the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs. Mrs. Brooks would later become the fourth president of the National Association of Colored Women – a post she held from 1908 until 1912.
It was always her dream to provide a home for New Bedford’s elderly citizens. She saw her dream realized in 1897 when she opened the New Bedford Home for the Aged. She served as president of the city’s first organized home for the elderly and served the home for many years thereafter. In 1918, Mrs. Brooks was asked by the War Department to plan and supervise the building of the Phillis Wheatley YWCA in Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth Carter married Bishop William Sampson Brooks in 1930 and relocated to Texas where she lived until his death in 1934. On June 14, 1934, she was awarded the honorary doctor of law degree from Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio. She returned to New Bedford and became active as president of the New England Conference Branch Woman’s Mite Missionary Society. She also presided over the regional conference of the NAACP as well as headed its New Bedford Branch.
The Martha Briggs Educational Club was a beneficiary of Carter Brooks’ generosity when, in 1939, she loaned them the money to purchase the home of Sgt. William H. Carney, for historical purposes. The home still serves as a memorial today. Following her death in 1951, she was honored by New Bedford when the Elizabeth Carter Brooks School was dedicated in her name.https://vc.bridgew.edu/hoba/1026/thumbnail.jp
Elizabeth Carter 1717-2017
No full textTo commemorate the 300th anniversary of Deal born poet and member of The Bluestocking Society, Elizabeth Carter, a celebration of her vitality and relationship to the town.
Stirred by the unexpected acquisition of The Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter with poems by Rev. Montagu Pennington, and curiously typed 19th century letters from her relatives regarding her portrait in Deal Town Hall, a site-specific tableau of found research material, moving-image and texts in the Town Hall Chamber was presented alongside an exhibition by historian, Pat Smith about ‘Deals Daughter’.
The English term “bluestocking” evolved in the mid-to-late 1700s. Elizabeth Carter wrote of the society: “As if the two sexes had been in a state of war, the gentlemen ranged themselves on one side of the room, where they talked their own talk, and left us poor ladies to twirl our shuttles, and amuse each other, by conversing as we could. By what little I could overhear, our opposites were discoursing on the old English poets, and this subject did not seem so much beyond a female capacity but that we might have been indulged with a share of it.”
Working with year 7 + 8 pupils from Goodwin Academy, Deal, Kent on an Onomatopoeia Workshop inspired by Carter, students used a specially designed WORKBOX to recreate the image and sound of the sea of the found postcards displayed of Deal using ink and parchment. Completed drawings, were then transformed into an atmospheric representation of the ‘rough seas’ as a stop motion animation titled ‘Rough C’ with sounds from the workshops arranged by Joe Reeves screened inside the Committee Room with a silent reading poem of Carter’s Written Extempore on the Sea for visitors to take away.
At Deal Pier a display of letterpress flags were hoisted for two weeks before the Deal Town Hall Heritage Weekend 2017 to celebrate Carters unsung relationship with the sea. All the materials displayed have been donated and archived for future use and reference by Deal Town Hall.
The project was supported by A Woman’s Place, Deal Town Hall, Goodwin Academy and Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts Londo
[A series of letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot]
No full textPhotograph of an 1809 edition of A series of letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770: to which are added, letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787; published from the original manuscripts in the possession of the Rev. Montagu Pennington, held by UNT Special Collections
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[A series of letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot]
No full textPhotograph of an 1809 edition of A series of letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770: to which are added, letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787; published from the original manuscripts in the possession of the Rev. Montagu Pennington, held by UNT Special Collections
Elizabeth Carter Tholl, soprano
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100 Letters from Elizabeth Montagu to Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO)
No full textEMCO's goal is to prepare a fully annotated electronic edition of Elizabeth Robinson Montagu’s correspondence. The author and bluestocking salonnière (1718-1800) was the leading woman of letters and artistic patron of her day. Montagu corresponded extensively with leaders of British Enlightenment coteries, such as Edmund Burke, Gilbert West, David Garrick and Horace Walpole, as well as the Bluestocking inner circle – Elizabeth Carter, Sarah Scott, Hannah More, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Frances Burney, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Vesey, and Frances Boscawen
Traduzione e breve introduzione critica alle lettere di Elizabeth Carter
No full textL'introduzione descrive il carteggio tra due scrittrici inglesi settecentesche, Elizabeth Carter (linguista e traduttrice da numerose lingue) e Catherine Talbot. Il sodalizio tra le due donne è alla base della pubblicazione più importante della Carter, la traduzione integrale dal greco di tutte le opere di Epitteto, che assicurò fama alla traduttrice
Elizabeth Carter's Legacy: Friendship and Ethics
No full text"Elizabeth Carter's Legacy: Friendship and Ethics" examines the written evidence about the relationships between Elizabeth Carter and her father, Dr. Nocolas Carte; Catherine Talbot; Sir William Pulteney (Lord Bath); and Samuel Johnson to explain how intellectual and personal relationships may become the principal ethical sdource of human happiness. Based on their own set of moral values, such as intellectual and individual liberty and equality, the relationships between Carter and her friends challenged eighteenth-century traditional norms of human relationships.
The primary source of this study, Carter's poetry and prose, including her letters, present the poet's experience of intellectual and individual friendship, reflecting Aristotle's ethics, specifically his moral teaching that views friendship as a human good contributing to human happiness--to the chief human good. Carter's poems devoted to her friends, such as Dr. Carter, Talbot, Montagu, Lord Bath, as well as her "A Dialogue" between Body and Mind, demonstrate her ethical legacy, her specific moral principles that elevated human relationships and human life. Carter's discussion of human relationships introduces the moral necessity of ethics in human life.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
Conserving the classical past: Elizabeth Carter, “On his Design of Cutting Down a Shady Walk” (1745)
Full text linkThis article was published digitally in an open-access collection of essays and poems in honor of Olga M. Davidson (http://www.thehollyfest.org/).Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806) was the most famous female classicist of the eighteenth century. This short essay focuses on a poem in which Carter protests the cutting down of a grove of trees. She inserts herself in a tradition of male classical figures whose thoughts were inspired by the environment, casting the natural grove as a gendered space for scholarly thought.Accepted manuscrip
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