Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

Standard Name: Portland, Margaret Bentinck,,, Duchess of
Used Form: Lady Margaret Harley (later Duchess of Portland)

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Wealth and Poverty Mary Delany
At this time her old friend the Duchess of Portland made her an interest-free loan of four hundred pounds which enabled her to buy a house, as well as inviting her to spend every summer...
Textual Production Lady Anne Clifford
She probably kept it for far longer than these surviving years; the original may have been destroyed by her grandson. The extant passages, probably first transcribed during her lifetime, are known from an eighteenth-century copy...
Textual Production Lady Anne Clifford
LAC was helped with her literary labours by several scribes, notably one Edward Langley . Of the four copies which she dictated and kept at various of her residences, one survives, corrected by herself: in...
Textual Features Elizabeth Montagu
The letters of EM 's youth—to the Duchess of Portland and to her sister Sarah Scott —are sparkling, irreverent, and inventive. Some of these were conveyed via Elizabeth Elstob .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Her early claim about the...
Residence Mary Delany
In the early years of her second widowhood, MD took to staying half the year with the Duchess of Portland at her estate at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire.
Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, pp. 203-35.
213, 216
She spent her winters...
Residence Elizabeth Elstob
Again, however, the boarding school idea seems never to have got off the ground. EE left Bath after only about a year, to join the household of the Duchess of Portland at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire.
Publishing Sarah Dixon
SD reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided...
Occupation Elizabeth Elstob
Having abandoned her plan for running a girls' boarding school, EE took up her post as governess to the Duchess of Portland 's very young children.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Delany
She began using the new technique in 1772. The idea of the collection dates from 1774, but she included in it a few representations made before that. She titled the volumes Plants copied after Nature...
Friends, Associates Mary Delany
Back in England in her second widowhood, MD was a frequent visitor to her lifelong, very close friend the Duchess of Portland . The duchess, an amateur scientist of unusual talent and achievement, brought MD
Friends, Associates Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan
She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Montagu
Elizabeth Robinson (later EM ) became a friend of Lady Margaret Harley (later Duchess of Portland ), who was seven years her senior.
Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray.
1: 8
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Montagu
Elizabeth Robinson (later EM ) spent long periods of time with the Duchess of Portland and her husband in London and at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire.
Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray.
1: 49, 97-8
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Montagu
The Duchess of Portland , friend of EM and the Bluestockings, and patron of art and literature, died.
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable.
2: 191-2
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
28, 32-44, 102-3, 267
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
55 (1785): 575
Friends, Associates Hannah More
Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke in Bristol the previous September...

Timeline

1734: The Society of Dilettanti was founded: an...

Building item

1734

The Society of Dilettanti was founded: an all-male group of travelled connoisseurs.

24 April 1786: The auction began of the Portland Museum,...

Building item

24 April 1786

The auction began of the Portland Museum, the collection of rarities in natural history collected by the late Duchess of Portland , with help from the botanist Daniel Solander .

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