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 ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Hannah More | |
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... |
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 |
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 | 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... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
published her translated A Letter from Monsieur Desenfans to Mrs. Montagu. Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XXII: Elizabeth Griffith 1727-1793”. The Book Collector, Vol. 8 , pp. 418-24. 424 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Griffith | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | This contains autobiographical fragments and insightful comments on other women writers. Objects of AG
's comment include Susan Ferrier
, Charlotte Smith
(whose poems AG
felt to be easy, flowing, and correct, but low on... |
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