Her mother, born Margaret Pigott
, came from a long-established Shropshire family and probably had literary interests, since she was a member of the circle of independent-minded women formed around Sarah Scott
and Lady Barbara Montagu
Friends, Associates
Sarah Scott
When these two settled at Batheaston, they became part of a circle of women that included friends they had already made: Sarah Fielding, Elizabeth Cutts
, Margaret Riggs
(whose daughter was to continue the...
Textual Production
Anna Miller
ALM dated the first letter she sent her mother
after leaving Paris on her way to Italy with her husband
, which became her travel book.
Miller, Anna, Lady. Letters from Italy. Second Edition, Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777, 2 vols.