""A Woman of Wit and Wisdom"" is a memoir of Elizabeth Carter, a member of the Bas Bleu Society, written by Alice Cecilia Caroline Gaussen and published in 1906. The book chronicles the life of Elizabeth Carter, a brilliant scholar and translator who was part of a group of women known as the Bas Bleu Society. The society was a group of intellectual women who met regularly to discuss literature and philosophy in the 18th century. Elizabeth Carter was...