Elizabeth Montagu

These letters include plenty to family and friends; most notable are those to her publishers, a whole series of them. Their editor, Judith Stanton , has pointed out their value in reflecting and commenting...

EOB writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld for praising Elizabeth Rowe . She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington is the real author of...

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...

HM composed a Prefatory Letter to Montagu , telling her about Yearsley , designed for printing at the head of Yearsley's poems to be published by subscription.

HM wrote to tell Montagu of Yearsley 's blackest ingratitude.

William Waller Pepys wrote, backed by Elizabeth Montagu , to press HM to exert her talents for the good of your Country (Which is in great Peril) by writing a Dialogue between two persons of...

EG published her translated A Letter from Monsieur Desenfans to Mrs. Montagu.

In 1933 RW wrote an essay about Emmeline Pankhurst for The Post-Victorians. She also wrote essays about Charlotte Brontë , for The Great Victorians (1932), and Elizabeth Montagu , for From Anne to Victoria (1937).

EC 's nephew Montagu Pennington followed his first collection of her letters with another, of her correspondence with her almost lifelong friend Elizabeth Montagu (whose name he bore, as her godson).

He seems, however, to have tried to toughen FR up or impart some degree of professionalism. She ought to put her name on her work, he said, and stand the sale. Indeed, it seems...

The letters that CF sent to Anne Grant are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...

It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...

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

In this work HMB warns against improper choice of friends and the excesses of romantic friendship, even while she idealises true friendship. She praises the well-employed talents of Elizabeth Montagu , Elizabeth Smith , Hannah More

This contains autobiographical fragments and insightful comments on other women writers. Objects of AG 's comment include Susan Ferrier , Charlotte Smith (whose poems AG felt to be easy, flowing, and correct, but low on...