Sarah Fielding, trans., Xenophon’s Memorabilia and The Apology of Socrates
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Sarah Fielding, trans., Xenophon’s Memorabilia and The Apology of Socrates
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As a monument of female classical achievement in eighteenth-century Britain, Sarah Fielding’s 1762 translation of Xenophon’s Memorabilia and Apology stands in the shadow of Elizabeth Carter’s slightly earlier translation of the works of Epictetus (1758). Both attracted subscribers from high society as well as across genders (Fielding with 611 subscribers against Carter’s 1,031), and both found some extended life via Dent’s Everyman classics series in the early twentieth century. As a classici...
Creator
Wilson, Penelope
Publisher
Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
XVII-XVIII
Date
2018-01-05
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info:eu-repo/semantics/review
review
Identifier
urn:doi:10.4000/1718.929
http://journals.openedition.org/1718/929
Language
en
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info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0291-3798
info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2117-590X
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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