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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Literary responses | Samuel Johnson | Like all of Johnson's later works this was controversial. For Johnson the art of biography has nothing to do with eulogy, and (quite apart from personal objections, like Elizabeth Montagu
's indignation at his low... |
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 |
Publishing | Mary Leapor | This time the publication was undertaken by Richardson. It was edited by Isaac Hawkins Browne
, with a much smaller subscription list, which however included Elizabeth Montagu
, Sarah Scott
, and Elizabeth Cutts
... |
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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | The celebrations also included ringing the church bells and presenting CM
with a gold medal. One of the odes (published at Bath the same year) depicts her as triumphing over other, more conservative women writers:... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | At twenty-one, he was much younger than she was (though many exaggerated the age difference), and of a lower rank (a saddler's son, and at the time of their marriage a surgeon's mate). He was... |
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 | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Still in her early teens, Mary Eleanor Bowes was taken up by the Bluestockings. Elizabeth Montagu
, she later reported, was pleased to honour me with her friendship, approbation, and correspondence. Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton. 14 |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
Publishing | Hannah More | By 23 July 1794, following the appearance of Paine's The Age of Reason, Porteus was urging More to write on the evidences of Christianity in the style of her Village Politics. She declined... |
Dedications | Hannah More | HM
published Essays on Various Subjects, principally designed for young ladies, dedicated to Elizabeth Montagu
. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 30 and n22 Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Hannah More | HM
wrote her first surviving letter about Ann Yearsley
to Elizabeth Montagu
, recounting in high terms the former's intense gratitude to the latter. Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press. 49 |
Textual Production | Hannah More | |
Textual Production | Hannah More |
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