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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Deverell | The second volume opens with poems on On Heroism in Female Virtue and On the Friendship between two Ladies. MD
praises Elizabeth Montagu
, Marie de Sévigné
, Anne Bacon
, and others, some... |
Publishing | Mary Deverell | MD
had apparently finished this poem in draft by 1782. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters span nearly fifty years, from 1810 to 1856. They give a vivid picture of CFC
's dedication to her studies and her publications. (The first records returning a copy of Elizabeth Montagu
's... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Collyer | MC
knew Elizabeth Carter
slightly before her marriage, and was a friend of Samuel Richardson
. Carter wrote of her to Elizabeth Montagu
and as an author she also met other Bluestockings, becoming particularly... |
Occupation | Hester Mulso Chapone | Suggestions were put to her about taking up a job as companion to an English duchess or governess in a German princely household, but the always-influential Elizabeth Montagu
disliked the sound of the first position... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hester Mulso Chapone | The book was a resounding success in the market. She had had the idea for these advice letters in 1765, when the niece who was to receive them was only eight. Montagu
encouraged her to... |
Literary responses | Sarah Chapone | SC
's friend and printer Richardson
saw her project in a different and far more simple light than she did: as the administering by a good woman of an antidote to the Poison shed by... |
Dedications | Hester Mulso Chapone | HMC
published her anonymous Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, addressed to a Young Lady—her eldest niece—and dedicated to Elizabeth Montagu
. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 43 (1773): 241 Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 231 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | In Genoa in February 1763 DC
and her husband entertained Jones, W. Powell, and William Robinson. “The William Robinsons in Italy”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 4 , No. 3, pp. 343-57. 352, 357 |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Carter | EC
had her portrait painted by the artist Catherine Read
(at least the third painter to represent her). It was commissioned by Elizabeth Montagu
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 246 |
Travel | Elizabeth Carter | EC
travelled in Europe with Elizabeth Montagu
and Lord Bath
. Pennington, Montagu, and Elizabeth Carter. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter. F. C. and J. Rivington. I: 270-2 Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 194 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | EC
's nephew Montagu Pennington
followed his first collection of her letters with another, of her correspondence with her almost lifelong friend Elizabeth Montagu
(whose name he bore, as her godson). Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 17 (1817): 293 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Carter | EC
associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Thomas Birch
, Moses Browne
, Richard Savage
, William
and John Duncombe |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Carter | EC
was proud of her financial independence (though she also accepted support from her wealthy friend Elizabeth Montagu
and from Archbishop Secker
, patron of her friend Catherine Talbot). She leased from Secker a group... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | The book had gone to press in June 1757. Feminist Companion Archive. |
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