Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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
EM
, 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.
Elizabeth Montagu
visited their school in this same year.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
9
The sisters retired from running it by the beginning of 1790.
Stott, Anne. Hannah More: The First Victorian. Oxford University Press.
129n10
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
126
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Scott
Sarah Robinson (later SS
) first met Lady Barbara Montagu
during a visit to Bath with her sister Elizabeth
.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
xiii
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Scott
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Wright
FW
's mother, Camilla Campbell Wright
, belonged to the British aristocracy. The bluestocking Elizabeth Robinson Montagu
was her godmother and great-aunt.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press.
5
Family and Intimate relationships
Catharine Macaulay
The celebrations also included ringing the church bells and presenting CM
with a gold medal. One of the odes (published at Bath the same year) depicts her as triumphing over other, more conservative women writers:...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
It was her mother's sister Margaret Spinckes, later Graves
(a cultivated woman and a friend of Elizabeth Montagu
), who brought her up.
Fryer, Mary Beacock. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, A Biography. Dundurn Press.
10, 12, 16
Family and Intimate relationships
Catharine Macaulay
At twenty-one, he was much younger than she was (though many exaggerated the age difference), and of a lower rank (a saddler's son, and at the time of their marriage a surgeon's mate). He was...
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.
Dedications
Frances Reynolds
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...
Dedications
Helen Maria Williams
HMW
published with her name her six-canto poem Peru, on the topic of colonialism, specificallyEuropean-New World and Christian-pagan relationships, dedicated to Elizabeth Montagu
.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
57 (1784): 376
Dedications
Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC
published her anonymous Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, addressed to a Young Lady—her eldest niece—and dedicated to Elizabeth Montagu
.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
43 (1773): 241
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
