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...

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Wilson, Penelope

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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

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urn:doi:10.4000/1718.929
http://journals.openedition.org/1718/929

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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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