Elizabeth Montagu
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Standard Name: Montagu, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Robinson
Nickname: Fidget
Nickname: The Two Peas (with Sarah Scott)
Nickname: The Queen of the Blues
Married Name: Elizabeth Montagu
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, eighteenth-century 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 Shakespeare
and dialogues of the dead.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Hannah More | HM
published Essays on Various Subjects, principally designed for young ladies, dedicated to Elizabeth Montagu
. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 30 and n22 Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Hannah More | HM
wrote her first surviving letter about Ann Yearsley
to Elizabeth Montagu
, recounting in high terms the former's intense gratitude to the latter. Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press. 49 |
Textual Production | Hannah More | |
Textual Production | Hannah More | |
Textual Production | Hannah More | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah More | Elizabeth Montagu
visited their school in this same year. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 9 Stott, Anne. Hannah More: The First Victorian. Oxford University Press. 129n10 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 126 |
Literary responses | Sarah Wentworth Morton | |
Occupation | Sarah Murray | SM
later ran another school in Kensington. Elizabeth Hagglund
, author of the entry on Sarah Murray in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, takes the identity between Murray and the author Mease... |
Textual Features | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Elizabeth Montagu
, standing as godmother, tried to brace her by saying she would not have taken on this office for a boy. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 167 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Gabriel Piozzi
came into Hester Thrale's life as music teacher of her eldest daughter. Two days before Henry Thrale's death a friend told her warningly, that Man is in Love with you. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 198 |
Travel | Hester Lynch Piozzi | They spent three years in Italy. HLP
had a wonderful time. Meanwhile in England Elizabeth Montagu
, among many others, subscribed to malicious unfounded rumours of Gabriel Piozzi's cruelty, dissipation, financial extravagance, and allegedly locking... |
Textual Features | Jane Porter | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,... |
Residence | Frances Reynolds | Some time after making the break with her brother FR
moved back into London, where she lived for a while in the household of John Hoole
in Great Queen Street. Then came a series... |
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