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...

It was her mother's sister Margaret Spinckes, later Graves (a cultivated woman and a friend of Elizabeth Montagu ), who brought her up.

MS brings her list up to date with significant women writers who have published since the appearance of The Feminead. Her information is not perfect—she credits Anna Williams with some works actually written by...

Sarah Robinson (later SS ) first met Lady Barbara Montagu during a visit to Bath with her sister Elizabeth .

The fame of SS 's elder sister, Elizabeth , later eclipsed her own. They enjoyed a very close relationship while they were growing up. Their nickname the two Peas suggests how they were regarded as...

The Bath Road also runs close to Elizabeth Montagu's country house at Sandleford. SS modelled this community on the one she had imagined in Millenium Hall, which in turn is closely related to the...

FR privately printed her work of aesthetic theory, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, &c, in a limited edition of 250 copies, dedicated to...

Samuel Johnson was eager to sit for her, and did so on three occasions: in March 1775, in June 1780, and in summer 1783. He may have been sitting for her on the day before...

FR became close to Elizabeth Montagu during the lifetime of Samuel Johnson, and after his death Montagu would have been her most committed, as well as her wealthiest, protector. Montagu sat to FR and collected...

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...

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...

FR pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men. She remarks on the paternal affection he entertained...

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 ,...

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...

Elizabeth Montagu , standing as godmother, tried to brace her by saying she would not have taken on this office for a boy. Harriet died of whooping-cough before she was five, in April 1783...