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    The 'pink house' in picture was, I think, the home of Elizabeth Carter, "That Wonderful Bluestocking" of Deal:
    She was born in 1717, and was the daughter of Dr Nicholas Carter, one of the six preachers at Canterbury Cathedral who had a perpetual curacy at Deal. He undertook her education, though finding her a dull child, advised her to abandon hope of Greek and Latin. But she had great determination and toiled heroically at her studies, burning the midnight oil, taking snuff and eating green tea and coffee to keep herself awake.

    She did not hunger after literary fame, but began the great work of her life, her translation of Epictetus, simply in order to oblige a friend, and was then persuaded to publish it. Her work brought her instant and lasting renown in Europe, a thousand pounds profit at once and independence for life.

    She was a queen of the bluestockings and a first favourite in learned circles, whose leaders would send a sedan chair or a carriage to take her out to dinner and back again, so that she rarely dined at home in London.

    She was a happy scholar, except when a mistake in a line of Homer ket her awake for a night. She b eat the bishops over a translation of two verses in the New Testament. Everybody loved her, no one more than John son, who allowed her to write two papers for his Rambler. She died in London in 1806, and lies in the burial ground of Grosvenor Chapel.

    (information from Arthur Mee's Kent)

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