William Pulteney Earl of Bath

Standard Name: Bath, William Pulteney,,, Earl of
Used Form: Lord Bath

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Dedications Elizabeth Carter
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.
193-4
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.
Textual Production Elizabeth Montagu
EM 's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory , Eliza Berkeley , Mary Delany , Ann Donellan , and Hester Thrale , besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and...
Travel Elizabeth Carter
EC travelled in Europe with Elizabeth Montagu and Lord Bath .
Pennington, Montagu, and Elizabeth Carter. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter. F. C. and J. Rivington, 1807.
I: 270-2
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
194
Travel Elizabeth Montagu
EM , travelling in Europe with Lord Bath , wrote from Spa in present-day Belgium, to describe to Elizabeth Vesey her visit there.
qtd. in
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.
1: 48-9

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