What was the name of the literary coterie that met regularly around 1750 that included Mrs Vesey, Mrs Ord, Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, Mrs Hester Chapone and Benjamin Stillingfleet?
Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Carter (pen name, Eliza; 16 December 171719 February 1806) was an English poet, classicist, writer, translator, linguist, and polymath. She was a member of the Bluestocking Circle that surrounded Elizabeth Montagu. She earned literary respect by producing the first English translation of the "Discourses of Epictetus" by the 2nd-century Stoic philosopher Epictetus. She published some poems, and translated writings from French and Italian. Otherwise most of her literary output was in the form of correspondence to family and friends. Carter was friends with many eminent people, and a close confidant of Elizabeth Montagu, Hannah More, Hester Chapone,
Elizabeth Carter but in her occasional expressions of buoyant gaiety where there was always something awkward, forced, and exaggerated. Carter kept an interest in religious matters. She was influenced by Hester Chapone, and she wrote apologetic treatises of the Christian faith, asserting the authority of the Bible over human matters. One of these works, known as "Objections against the New Testament with Mrs Carter's Answers to them" and was published in the compilation of writings "Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter" by Montagu Pennington, which included her "Notes on the Bible and the Answers to Objections concerning the Christian Religion".