Excerpt from A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the 'Bas Bleu' Society, 1717-1806 Few but the most enthusiastic students of the eighteenth century can find time to dig for the hidden treasures that lie buried in the numerous volumes containing the life and letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. To throw light upon the brilliant picture of her personality, brimful of animation, and of mental and physical activity, and to focus the many side-lights that stream in from various sources upon the stage on which this remarkable woman moved, with men and women of genius clustering in the foreground, it is necessary to explore the mass of contem porary literature that recalls her times, and the gifted circle to which she belonged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.