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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Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gilding | Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio... |
Literary responses | Phebe Gibbes | This novel aroused much interest. One letter was reprinted almost entire, without attribution, on 2 July 1789 in the Aberdeen Magazine as a Picture of the Mode of living at Calcutta. In a letter from... |
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... |
Publishing | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | This novel was published by Hookham
in three volumes, and dedicated to Georgiana's friend Lady Camden
. Its subscription list, in this and the second edition (issued by Hookham in 1787, in two volumes each... |
Literary responses | Eliza Fletcher | During her lifetime EF
acquired a literary reputation for her life rather than her works. Elizabeth Isabella Spence
wrote of her as the Mrs. Montague
of Edinburgh, who combined intellect with virtue and made... |
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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Sarah Fielding | In later years she received financial aid from her half-brother Sir John Fielding
(who paid her £20 most years from 1761), from Ralph Allen
(who left her a legacy of £100 in August 1764), and... |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their... |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III
fell ill, probably... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Katharine Elwood | Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Griselda Murray
, Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford
, Hester Lynch Piozzi |
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 | Mary Deverell | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes both that MD
received patronage from Bristol heiress Ann Lovell Gwatkin
, and that Hannah More
emphatically did not take to her, though their paths must repeatedly have... |
Publishing | Mary Deverell | A dedication to the Princess Royal praises the immortal writings of many other women, or rather ladies. MD
herself, she says, is a person of obscure and undistinguished rank, who yet hath not reliquished the... |
Publishing | Mary Deverell | Her full title was Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, mostly written in the Epistolary Style, chiefly upon Moral Subjects, And particularly calculated for the Improvement of Younger Minds. It was published in two volumes... |
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