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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Textual Features | Elizabeth Carter | As a youngster of twenty-one (in May 1739), EC
addressed the eminent businessman Edward Cavebreezily, mingling the domestic and the literary. Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6. 63 |
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 |
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... |
Reception | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Miss Aikin's Poems sold five hundred copies in just over four months, and the second edition sold a similar number in a similar period. In September a third edition was announced. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 111 |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
Publishing | Mary Deverell | A dedication to the Princess Royal praises the immortal writings of many other women, or rather ladies. MD
herself, she says, is a person of obscure and undistinguished rank, who yet hath not reliquished the... |
Publishing | Mary Deverell | Her full title was Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, mostly written in the Epistolary Style, chiefly upon Moral Subjects, And particularly calculated for the Improvement of Younger Minds. It was published in two volumes... |
Publishing | Mary Deverell | MD
had apparently finished this poem in draft by 1782. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Anna Williams | Williams had suffered from the usual anxieties of those who began collecting subscriptions long before their book was ready: the money had been eaten up by necessities, and she was afraid of inadvertently swindling her... |
Publishing | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | This novel was published by Hookham
in three volumes, and dedicated to Georgiana's friend Lady Camden
. Its subscription list, in this and the second edition (issued by Hookham in 1787, in two volumes each... |
Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
presented the manuscript of her Ode on the Peace to Elizabeth Montagu
; it was published the same year, without her name but with mention of her previous publication. |
Publishing | Mary Leapor | This time the publication was undertaken by Richardson. It was edited by Isaac Hawkins Browne
, with a much smaller subscription list, which however included Elizabeth Montagu
, Sarah Scott
, and Elizabeth Cutts
... |
Publishing | Hannah More | By 23 July 1794, following the appearance of Paine's The Age of Reason, Porteus was urging More to write on the evidences of Christianity in the style of her Village Politics. She declined... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | The book had gone to press in June 1757. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III
fell ill, probably... |
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