Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Scott | |
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... |
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 | 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. 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. 1: 49, 97-8 |
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. 2: 191-2 Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 28, 32-44, 102-3, 267 Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 55 (1785): 575 |
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... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Montagu | The letters of EM
's youth—to the Duchess of Portland
and to her sister Sarah Scott
—are sparkling, irreverent, and inventive. Some of these were conveyed via Elizabeth Elstob
. 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. |
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... |
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. Feminist Companion Archive. |
death | Elizabeth Elstob | EE
died in her seventies, after nearly twenty years as a dependent of the Duchess of Portland
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Residence | Elizabeth Elstob | Again, however, the boarding school idea seems never to have got off the ground. EE
left Bath after only about a year, to join the household of the Duchess of Portland
at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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