Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Margaret Bentinck Duchess of Portland
Standard Name: Portland, Margaret Bentinck,,, Duchess of
Used Form: Lady Margaret Harley (later Duchess of Portland)
Connections
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Cultural formation | Mary Delany | In Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, 2011, Lisa L. Moore
classified MD
, along with the Duchess of Portland
, Anna Seward
, and the American Sarah Pierce
(1767-1852), as lesbian-like women... |
death | Elizabeth Elstob | |
Education | Elizabeth Montagu | Elizabeth was well-schooled along with her brothers and her sister. Commentators make much of the contribution supposedly provided by their step-grandfather, Cambridge scholar Conyers Middleton
; but in letters to her sister and to the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
was always especially proud of the fact that the Bentincks were descended, though not actually from the seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish
, Duchess of Newcastle (who had no children), at least from the family... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Scott | |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The Duchess of Portland
, friend of EM
and the Bluestockings, and patron of art and literature, died. Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols. 2: 191-2 Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 28, 32-44, 102-3, 267 Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 55 (1785): 575 |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | As an unusually talented woman moving in fashionable and high-culture circles, the future MD
knew almost everybody of interest during her lifetime, including literary celebrities. She was a good friend of the Bluestocking group, and... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | |
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 | Elizabeth Robinson (later EM
) became a friend of Lady Margaret Harley (later Duchess of Portland
), who was seven years her senior. 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: 8 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | Elizabeth Robinson (later EM
) spent long periods of time with the Duchess of Portland
and her husband
in London and at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire. 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: 49, 97-8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Delany | She began using the new technique in 1772. The idea of the collection dates from 1774, but she included in it a few representations made before that. She titled the volumes Plants copied after Nature... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Elstob | Having abandoned her plan for running a girls' boarding school, EE
took up her post as governess to the Duchess of Portland
's very young children. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Publishing | Sarah Dixon | SD
reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided... |
Timeline
1734: The Society of Dilettanti was founded: an...
Building item
1734
The Society of Dilettanti
was founded: an all-male group of travelled connoisseurs.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
256-8
24 April 1786: The auction began of the Portland Museum,...
Building item
24 April 1786
The auction began of the Portland Museum, the collection of rarities in natural history collected by the late Duchess of Portland
, with help from the botanist Daniel Solander
.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2024, Numbered catalogues.
66
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