Elizabeth Carter in Canterbury - 8 November, 1740, in the afternoon
from Elizabeth Carter, 1717–1806. An Edition of Some Unpublished Letters, page 95:
I have paid half a dozen Visits this Morning & in the Afternoon had the pleasure of seeing Miss Lynch and Miss Hall. Miss Lynch is genteeler & sings prettier than ever. I am to dine there to Morrow & shall let her have no Peace if she will not sing me the hundred & nineteenth Psalm thruff out.
Elizabeth Carter, and Gwen Hampshire (ed.), Elizabeth Carter, 1717–1806. An Edition of Some Unpublished Letters (Newark, Delaware, 2005), p. 95. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1674730214427 accessed: 18 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| unspecified song | performed by Miss Sarah Lynch |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 8 November, 1740, in the afternoon |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors |
Notes
The listening experience is in a letter from Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Underdown, dated 8 November 1740. Elizabeth Carter was a member of the Bluestockings Society, educated women who met and exchanged letters about a wide variety of intellectual interests. The origin of the term may reference a gentleman who participated in the group wearing blue stockings, not the formal black stockings that convention required. He was welcomed none the less, suggesting a spirit of intellectual enquiry and companionship that changed by the Victorian era when ‘Bluestocking’ became a derogatory term directed at women interested in intellectual pursuits.