r learning. She
studied late at night and early in the morning, taking snuff and chewing
green tea to keep herself awake; thus causing severe injury to her
health. She learned Greek and Latin, and Dr Johnson said concerning a
celebrated scholar that he "understood Greek better than any one whom he
had ever known except Elizabeth Carter." She learned also Hebrew,
French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and lastly some Arabic.
She studied astronomy, ancient geography, and ancient and modern
history. Edward Cave was a friend of Dr Carter, and in 1734 some of
Elizabeth's verses, signed "Eliza," appeared in the _Gentleman's
Magazine_, to which she contributed for many years. In 1738 Cave
published her _Poems upon Particular Occasions_; in 1739 she translated
from the French an attack on Pope's _Essay on Man_ by J.P. de Crousaz;
and in the same year appeared her translation from the Italian of
Algarotti's _Newtonianismo per le Dame_, under the title of _Sir Isaac
Newton's Philosophy explained for the use of the Ladies, in six
Dialogues on Light and Colour_. Her translation of Epictetus (1758) was
undertaken in 1749 to please her friends, Thomas Secker (afterwards
archbishop of Canterbury) and his niece, Catherine Talbot, to whom the
translation was sent, sheet by sheet, as it was done. In 1762 Miss
Carter printed a second collection of _Poems on Several Occasions_. Her
letters to Miss Talbot contain an account of a tour on the continent
undertaken in 1763 in company with Edward and Elizabeth Montagu and
William Pulteney, 1st earl of Bath. Dr Carter, from 1762 to his death in
1774, lived with his daughter in a house at Deal, which she had
purchased. An annuity was settled on her by Sir William Pulteney and his
wife, who had inherited Lord Bath's fortune; and she had another annuity
from Mrs Montagu. Among Miss Carter's friends and correspondents were
Samuel Johnson, Bishop Butler, Richard Savage, Horace Walpole, Samuel
Richardson, Edmund Burke, Hannah More, and Elizabeth Vesey, who was a
leader of literary society. She died in Clarges Street, Piccadilly, on
the 19th of February 1806.

Her _Memoirs_ were published in 1807; her correspondence with Miss
Talbot and Mrs Vesey in 1809; and her letters to Mrs Montagu in 1817.
See also _A Woman of Wit and Wisdom_ (1906), a biography by Alice C.C.
Gaussen.

CARTERET, SIR GEORGE (c. 1610-1680), English politician, was born
between 1609 and 1617 on the island of Jer