George first Baron Lyttelton

Standard Name: Lyttelton, George,,, first Baron

Used Form: Lord Lyttelton

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Montagu	While still unmarried, Elizabeth Robinson (later EM ) became a friend of George Lyttelton , who was to become her close associate and literary mentor. She probably knew him by February 1740; their relationship deepened...
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	Jean Marishall	While in LondonJM was in touch with a long list of patrons or prospective patrons, including those eminent in both the social and literary worlds. The socially prominent included (as well as a colonel...
Intertextuality and Influence	Clara Reeve	CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Heyrick	She begins cautiously by quoting Woman's noblest station is retreat Heyrick, Elizabeth. Appeal to the Hearts and Consciences of British Women. A. Cockshaw, 1828. 2 (from George Lyttelton 's notorious Advice to a Lady, 1731) and by claiming some political role for woman in spite of proper femininity:...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth B. Lester	This title-page quotes from Horace , Lyttelton , and Addison . The first tale, Genius (told partly in letters), fills volume one, and the second, Enthusiasm, volumes two and three. Both attributes are presented...
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...
Occupation	Jean Marishall	Despite her own skimpy education, she ran a periodical in London (which did not pay), as well as working for children's publisher John Newbery . She consulted about the periodical with the Duchess of Northumberland
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
Textual Features	Elizabeth Montagu	EM seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living). Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols. 2: 179 In the dialogues she...
Textual Production	Elizabeth Montagu	Karen O'Brien argues that Lyttelton 's monumental History of the Life of King Henry the Second, 1767-71, was, in part, the result of intellectual collaboration with Montagu. O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 140
Textual Production	Emma Parker	She quoted Lyttelton on the title-page (which is dated 1810), and dedicated the book (as her first) to her mother. She also supplied it with a prefatory To the Reader and a Conclusion. The...
Textual Production	Judith Cowper Madan	The Family Miscellany, collected and transcribed by JCM 's brother Ashley Cowper , dated 1747 and now British Library MS Add. 28,101, includes plenty of poems by Ashley himself and plenty more ascribed to...
Textual Production	Jean Marishall	JM says the idea of writing a comedy was first suggested to her by Hope amid the disappointments that attended the appearance of her first novel. Marishall, Jean. A Series of Letters. C. Elliot, 1788, 2 vols. 2: 195 Again she published allusively, as the Author...
Textual Production	Elizabeth Montagu	EM contributed, anonymously, three dialogues to Dialogues of the Dead by her friend George, Lord Lyttelton . Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols. 4: 389 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: 181

Timeline

12 March 1733

George Lyttelton published a poem entitled Advice to a Lady.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.

264

5 February 1737

The Opposition journal Common Sense; or, The Englishman's Journal published its first number.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.

105n2

Battestin, Martin C., and Ruthe Battestin. Henry Fielding: A Life. Routledge, 1989.

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26 June 1764

Oliver Goldsmith published his well-known History of England; it was well reviewed and remained a standard pedagogical text for generations.

Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

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Texts

Montagu, Elizabeth, and George, first Baron Lyttelton. “Dialogues XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII”. Dialogues of the Dead, Garland, 1970, pp. 291-20.