MISS ELIZABETH CARTER, described in the footnotes to the early reprints of the Rambler as “Mrs. Carter of Deal” was one of the celebrated “bluestockings” of the eighteenth century. She translated Epictetus and, besides her Greek and Latin, knew Hebrew, French, German, and most of the European languages. Doctor Johnson admired her greatly for her ability and the use she made of it, and it was to him that she owed the publication of several of her essays in the Rambler. She was born at Deal, December 6th, 1717. Her father was a clergyman, who educated his girls as thoroughly as he did his boys. In her anxiety to learn, Elizabeth “took snuff and learned to chew green tea to keep awake at night.” Her health was thus impaired and she never married, but in spite of the damage to her nerves from snuff, green tea, and education, she lived until 1806, and for the last twelve years of her father’s life gave him a home in a house she had bought with her own earnings.