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.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Frances Reynolds | Samuel Johnson
was eager to sit for her, and did so on three occasions: in March 1775, in June 1780, and in summer 1783. He may have been sitting for her on the day before... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Reynolds | |
Residence | Frances Reynolds | Some time after making the break with her brother FR
moved back into London, where she lived for a while in the household of John Hoole
in Great Queen Street. Then came a series... |
Textual Production | Frances Reynolds | He seems, however, to have tried to toughen FR
up or impart some degree of professionalism. She ought to put her name on her work, he said, and stand the sale. Reynolds, Frances. “Introduction”. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, &c, edited by James L. Clifford, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, p. i - xi. iv |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Reynolds | FR
pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men. Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, pp. 2: 250 - 300. 2: 252 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Scott | Sarah Robinson (later SS
) first met Lady Barbara Montagu
during a visit to Bath with her sister Elizabeth
. Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv. xiii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Scott | The fame of SS
's elder sister, Elizabeth
, later eclipsed her own. They enjoyed a very close relationship while they were growing up. Their nickname the two Peas suggests how they were regarded as... |
politics | Sarah Scott | The Bath Road also runs close to Elizabeth Montagu's country house at Sandleford. SS
modelled this community on the one she had imagined in Millenium Hall, which in turn is closely related to the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Scott | MS
brings her list up to date with significant women writers who have published since the appearance of The Feminead. Her information is not perfect—she credits Anna Williams
with some works actually written by... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | It was her mother's sister Margaret Spinckes, later Graves
(a cultivated woman and a friend of Elizabeth Montagu
), who brought her up. Fryer, Mary Beacock. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, A Biography. Dundurn Press. 10, 12, 16 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Smith | These letters include plenty to family and friends; most notable are those to her publishers, a whole series of them. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 207 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Sterne | He married, in 1741, Elizabeth Lumley
, who was a cousin of Elizabeth Montagu
. Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research. 473 |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Talbot | Six months later CT
was staying with the duchess on an extended visit. She was also a good friend of Elizabeth Montagu
(of whose closeness to Carter she was sometimes jealous); of Montagu's friends George Lyttelton |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Thicknesse | AT
makes it clear she is no proto-feminist: If women are thought to possess minds less capable of solid reflection than men, they owe this conjecture entirely to their own vanity, and erroneous method of... |
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