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
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Literary responses | Frances Burney | Hester Thrale
recorded a significant dissenting voice: nine months after publication, Mrs Montagu
cannot bear Evelina. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 172 |
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... |
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 | |
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... |
Occupation | Anna Letitia Barbauld | At some time before November 1773, while the engaged pair were casting around for a means of earning money, Countess Spencer
(perhaps, but only perhaps, with the support of Elizabeth Montagu
, and quite possibly... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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
... |
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... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | The book had gone to press in June 1757. Feminist Companion Archive. |
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... |
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