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5 janvier 2018
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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...