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
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Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
met Elizabeth Montagu
for the first time (after some months' correspondence) when on her honeymoon trip she visited Montagu's house in Hill Street, Mayfair, London site of the famous bluestocking salon. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 147 McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xliv Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 80 |
Friends, Associates | Bathsua Makin | BM
's brother-in-law John Pell called her a woman of great acquaintance. Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press. 82 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Fisher | As an eighteenth-century publisher AF
was in a small way one of the new breed of literary patrons. She and her husband helped the minor pastoral poet John Cunningham
(17291773) by publishing him both in... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Collyer | MC
knew Elizabeth Carter
slightly before her marriage, and was a friend of Samuel Richardson
. Carter wrote of her to Elizabeth Montagu
and as an author she also met other Bluestockings, becoming particularly... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Still in her early teens, Mary Eleanor Bowes was taken up by the Bluestockings. Elizabeth Montagu
, she later reported, was pleased to honour me with her friendship, approbation, and correspondence. Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton. 14 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Thicknesse | AT
makes it clear she is no proto-feminist: If women are thought to possess minds less capable of solid reflection than men, they owe this conjecture entirely to their own vanity, and erroneous method of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hester Mulso Chapone | The book was a resounding success in the market. She had had the idea for these advice letters in 1765, when the niece who was to receive them was only eight. Montagu
encouraged her to... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Carter | EC
had her portrait painted by the artist Catherine Read
(at least the third painter to represent her). It was commissioned by Elizabeth Montagu
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 246 |
Leisure and Society | Joanna Baillie | In the earlier 1840s, however, she was still a keen reader. She tackled the first edition of Frances Burney
's Diary and Letters out of a desire to get some insight into the literary society... |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | Hester Thrale
recorded a significant dissenting voice: nine months after publication, Mrs Montagu
cannot bear Evelina. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 172 |
Literary responses | Samuel Johnson | Like all of Johnson's later works this was controversial. For Johnson the art of biography has nothing to do with eulogy, and (quite apart from personal objections, like Elizabeth Montagu
's indignation at his low... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | Elizabeth Montagu
wrote to Elizabeth Carter
on 19 September 1793 ostensibly speculating as to what exactly was meant by the title Bas Bleu. She seemed to think (probably feigning, since the term bluestocking was... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | |
Literary responses | Sarah Wentworth Morton | |
Literary responses | Ann Yearsley |
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