Here we will offer some brief biographical information, in order to position Elizabeth Carter within the literary and historical moment addressed in "The Unsex'd Females."

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• Lines 189-190 "And CARTER, with a milder air, diffuse / "The moral precepts of the Grecian Muse;"

• "Ode to Wisdom"
  (U Penn, Stuart Curran)
• "To Miss Ethelred Lynch, 1747: from her Guardian Angel"
  (U Penn, Stuart Curran)