Elizabeth Montagu
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Standard Name: Montagu, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Robinson
Nickname: Fidget
Nickname: The Two Peas (with Sarah Scott)
Nickname: The Queen of the Blues
Married Name: Elizabeth Montagu
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, eighteenth-century Bluestocking leader, is known on the one hand as an informal letter-writer, and on the other hand for ambitious critical intervention in canonicity and cultural debates, with her critical study of Shakespeare
and dialogues of the dead.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah More | Elizabeth Montagu
visited their school in this same year. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 9 Stott, Anne. Hannah More: The First Victorian. Oxford University Press. 129n10 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 126 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Harcourt | MH
and her husband
subscribed in 1803 to Poems by the widowed Mrs George Sewell (Mary Sewell)
. Other subscribers included Elizabeth Carter
, Elizabeth Cobbold
, Catherine Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Arabella Rowden |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Boswell's is Johnson's most famous friendship, but his women friends were immensely important to him. Carter and Lennox were joined by Hester Thrale
(though Johnson always reckoned her husband, Henry Thrale
, if anything the... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Carter | EC
associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Thomas Birch
, Moses Browne
, Richard Savage
, William
and John Duncombe |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany
, Elizabeth Montagu
, and Samuel Johnson
. From 1777 she... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During her childhood, ECK
associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds
(sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Their children's education provided opportunities to Lord and Lady Craven to act as literary patrons. In 1778, at the suggestion of Elizabeth Montagu
, Elizabeth Craven took on as governess the writer Madame Vaucluse (... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | Early in her life CM
knew (or was known to) the somewhat older Robinson sisters (the future Elizabeth Montagu
and Sarah Scott
), whose mother's family estate was not far from her father's. Schellenberg, Betty. “Remembering Beyond the Great Forgetting”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Saskatoon, SK. |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | There she began to frequent Elizabeth Montagu
's bluestocking circle. She was introduced in cultural circles by Andrew Kippis
, minister of the church her family attended, and soon knew William Hayley
, Sarah Siddons |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
met Elizabeth Montagu
for the first time (after some months' correspondence) when on her honeymoon trip she visited Montagu's house in Hill Street, Mayfair, London site of the famous bluestocking salon. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 147 McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xliv Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 80 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | In Genoa in February 1763 DC
and her husband entertained Jones, W. Powell, and William Robinson. “The William Robinsons in Italy”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 4 , No. 3, pp. 343-57. 352, 357 |
Friends, Associates | Bathsua Makin | BM
's brother-in-law John Pell called her a woman of great acquaintance. Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press. 82 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Fisher | As an eighteenth-century publisher AF
was in a small way one of the new breed of literary patrons. She and her husband helped the minor pastoral poet John Cunningham
(17291773) by publishing him both in... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Collyer | MC
knew Elizabeth Carter
slightly before her marriage, and was a friend of Samuel Richardson
. Carter wrote of her to Elizabeth Montagu
and as an author she also met other Bluestockings, becoming particularly... |
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