Audrey T. Carpenter
Audrey T. Carpenter is a British biographer, after an earlier career as a technical abstractor and librarian.
Career
[edit]Carpenter graduated from the University of London with a doctorate in chemistry in 1959, and worked as a technical abstractor and librarian.[1] She then studied for a degree in English at Loughborough University in 1990, and went on to gain a second PhD, in 2010, on John Theophilus Desaguliers: her thesis title was "Ingenious Philosopher: John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), popularizer of Newtonianism and promoter of freemasonry".[2][3]
She has written biographies of freemason John Theophilus Desaguliers,[4][5][6] opera singer Giovanna Sestini[7] and Sestini's husband Joachim Hayward Stocqueler,[8] and wrote Sestini's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Her biography of Desaguliers has been listed by the Museum of Freemasonry in its "Learn about Freemasonry: 12 books to expand your knowledge".[9]
Selected publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- Carpenter, Audrey T. (2011). John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781441182227.
- Carpenter, Audrey T. (2017). Giovanna Sestini: an Italian opera singer in eighteenth-century London. Kibworth Beauchamp: Matador. ISBN 978-1-788-03880-5.
- Carpenter, Audrey T. (2018). A Resourceful Rogue: Joachim Hayward Stocqueler (1801-1886). FeedARead.com. ISBN 9781788763707.
ODNB contribution
[edit]- Carpenter, Audrey T. "Sestini, Giovanna [married name Joanna Stocqueler] (1749–1814)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/106538. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Journal articles
[edit]- Carpenter, Audrey T. (2015). "A "Most enchanting comic actress": Giovanna Sestini, an Italian opera singer in the London theatres". Theatre Notebook. 69 (3): 136–151.
- Carpenter, Audrey T. (Spring 2015). "From Soldier to Newspaperman: The Varied Experiences of Joachim Hayward Stocqueler in Bombay and Calcutta from 1819 to 1843" (PDF). Journal of the Families in British India Society. 33: 3-14.
References
[edit]- ^ "Audrey T. Carpenter". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ Carpenter, Audrey T. (1 January 2010). "Ingenious Philosopher: John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), popularizer of Newtonianism and promoter of freemasonry [Catalogue record and abstract]". Loughborough University Repository. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ "Alumna Audrey enjoys writing success". Loughborough University. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ Wigelsworth, Jeffrey R. (2013). "The freemason who explained Newton: Audrey T. Carpenter: John Theophilus Desaguliers: A natural philosopher, engineer and freemason in Newtonian England". Metascience. 22 (1): 181-184. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ Pink, Andrew (15 October 2013). "Carpenter, Audrey, John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England". Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism. 3 (1). doi:10.1558/jrff.v3i1.130.
- ^ "Holiday Hints: In the beginning [recommended books]". Scottish Rite: 26. November–December 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ Pink, Andrew (2018). "Review of Giovanna Sestini: An Italian Opera Singer in Eighteenth-Century London". Fontes Artis Musicae. 65 (3): 185–187. ISSN 0015-6191.
- ^ "Audrey T. Carpenter, A Resourceful Rogue [review]" (PDF). British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter. 19 (1): 22. July 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ "Learn about freemasonry: 12 books to expand your knowledge". Museum of Freemasonry. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
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