Elizabeth Montagu

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...

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...

HM was much praised for this pamphlet as soon as her authorship was known. Porteus wrote to her as if to Mrs Chip, the author's wife, with the conceit that the pamphlet would make Chip...

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...

HM published Essays on Various Subjects, principally designed for young ladies, dedicated to Elizabeth Montagu .

HM wrote her first surviving letter about Ann Yearsley to Elizabeth Montagu , recounting in high terms the former's intense gratitude to the latter.

During her lifetime SWM was seen as standing at the head of a national tradition of women's writing: in 1791 she was flattered with the honorific titles of both the Sappho and the Elizabeth Montagu

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...

The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett

Elizabeth Montagu , standing as godmother, tried to brace her by saying she would not have taken on this office for a boy. Harriet died of whooping-cough before she was five, in April 1783...

Gabriel Piozzi came into Hester Thrale's life as music teacher of her eldest daughter. Two days before Henry Thrale's death a friend told her warningly, that Man is in Love with you. Probably by...

They spent three years in Italy. HLP had a wonderful time. Meanwhile in England Elizabeth Montagu , among many others, subscribed to malicious unfounded rumours of Gabriel Piozzi's cruelty, dissipation, financial extravagance, and allegedly locking...

Her Thaddeus owes much to Kościuszko, but he is only half Polish: his English father abandoned his royally-descended Polish mother. In the battle between the courageous underdog Poland and tyrannical Russia, Thaddeus forges a friendship...

While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR ) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks , George Fordyce , Ralph Griffiths ,...

FR privately printed her work of aesthetic theory, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, &c, in a limited edition of 250 copies, dedicated to...