She dedicated it to Lord Bath
, who had persuaded her to publish it. This volume included only two poems from her earlier collection. A second edition followed in 1766, and a third (expanded with...
Friends, Associates
Catherine Talbot
Six months later CT
was staying with the duchess on an extended visit. She was also a good friend of Elizabeth Montagu
(of whose closeness to Carter she was sometimes jealous); of Montagu's friends George Lyttelton
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Montagu
EM
developed a significant friendship with the former politician William Pulteney, Lord Bath
, which ended only with his death.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray, 1906, 2 vols.
2: 189
Literary responses
Elizabeth Montagu
EM
's four-year correspondence with the brilliant, witty, difficult, and rather intimidating octogenarianLord Bath
, and the experience of reading them, are the subject of a thought-provoking blog by Jane Magrath
.
Magrath, Jane. “Reading for their lives”. Reading for their lives: the bluestockings, their letters, their lives, Jan. 2012.