Elizabeth Montagu
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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
and dialogues of the dead.
, eighteenth-century - BirthName: Elizabeth Robinson
- Nicknames: The Two Peas (with Sarah Scott); FidgetThe name The Two Peas derived from the perception that and her sister Sarah were as like as two peas; literary historian Betty Rizzo says no one used this name after Sarah had smallpox.; The Queen of the BluesMyers suggests this name was coined by's friend Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland.This name reflects's wealth, power, and position in relation to the other Bluestockings.
- Married: Montagu