Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | He was a relation (through his mother) of Agmondesham (or Agmondisham) Vesey
, second husband of the bluestocking Elizabeth Vesey
. From 1782 he was a member of the Club associated with Samuel Johnson
... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
met and formed a close friendship with Elizabeth Vesey
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 251-2 Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray, 1906, 2 vols. 1: 267 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
wrote to express to Elizabeth Vesey
her strong views on the deplorable morality of Lord Chesterfield
's letters, recently published. Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols. 1: 284-5 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
Leisure and Society | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | Her bluestocking assembly, which ran from at least 1781, was modelled on that of her husband's relation Elizabeth Vesey
. Anti-bluestocking prejudice may perhaps have fed into her daughter's problems with her mother-in-law, and the... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Montagu | Some contemporaries commented unfavourably either on EM
's unfeminine assertion of her own ability or on her too feminine love of finery. It would seem that some compared her unfavourably with the more self-effacing salon... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | Her nephew Montagu Pennington
collected and edited three volumes of of EC
's letters to Catherine Talbot
and Elizabeth Vesey
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Hannah More | |
Travel | Elizabeth Montagu |
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