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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Occupation | Hannah More | HM
embarked on helping Ann Yearsley
in the terrible winter of 1783-4, when the Yearsley family were near destitution. Charity modulated into literary patronage over the year 1784, as More brought Yearsley to the attention... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | Elizabeth Montagu
wrote to Elizabeth Carter
on 19 September 1793 ostensibly speculating as to what exactly was meant by the title Bas Bleu. She seemed to think (probably feigning, since the term bluestocking was... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | |
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 |
Literary responses | Sarah Wentworth Morton | |
Occupation | Sarah Murray | SM
later ran another school in Kensington. Elizabeth Hagglund
, author of the entry on Sarah Murray in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, takes the identity between Murray and the author Mease... |
Textual Features | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Elizabeth Montagu
, standing as godmother, tried to brace her by saying she would not have taken on this office for a boy. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 167 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Gabriel Piozzi
came into Hester Thrale's life as music teacher of her eldest daughter. Two days before Henry Thrale's death a friend told her warningly, that Man is in Love with you. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 198 |
Travel | Hester Lynch Piozzi | They spent three years in Italy. HLP
had a wonderful time. Meanwhile in England Elizabeth Montagu
, among many others, subscribed to malicious unfounded rumours of Gabriel Piozzi's cruelty, dissipation, financial extravagance, and allegedly locking... |
Textual Features | Jane Porter | Her Thaddeus owes much to Kościuszko, but he is only half Polish: his English father abandoned his royally-descended Polish mother. In the battle between the courageous underdog Poland and tyrannical Russia, Thaddeus forges a friendship... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,... |
Dedications | Frances Reynolds | FR
privately printed her work of aesthetic theory, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, &c, in a limited edition of 250 copies, dedicated to... |
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