[3] She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Muskingum College in close by New Concord in May 1943,[3][4] and briefly enrolled at University of Chicago.
[5] In her career, Carver worked with authors Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, Lionel Trilling, Christopher Fry, Flannery O'Connor, Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth Bishop, Iris Murdoch, John Berryman, Bernard Malamud, Richard Ellmann, Leon Edel and Richard Holmes.
[1] Carver later joined OUP but she resigned in 1976 when the company closed its London office and moved to Oxford because she wanted to remain in the capital.
[2] She preferred to find alternative employment, working for Victor Gollancz and then freelance for Yale University Press among other publishers.
"[2] The obituarist for The Times described Carver as "diminutive, dignified and diffident, she was modest, soft-spoken, gentle in manner",[4] and someone who was "generous to the writers she helped, but not to herself.
She carefully observed quotations and references along with punctuation and word usage and would provide the author with a large amount of pages of questions and suggestions.