Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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death | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She was buried in the vault at the fairly new Grosvenor Chapel nearby. The inscription put up by her daughter
has been inaccessible for years, since the vault has been closed. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
's relationship with daughter, interrupted for nearly a decade by their quarrel, resumed about the time that Lady Bute
underwent a particularly protracted and dangerous childbirth. Lady Mary pressed her regularly for detail about... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Louisa Stuart | Her mother, Lady Bute
, has often been represented in writings about her mother as dull and conservative. But she had written immensely talented and satirical poems during her teenage years, then married the man... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | This was John Opie's second marriage; his first wife had deserted him and their marriage had been dissolved by act of parliament. The second marriage remained childless. John Opie had been enjoying professional success in... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | EMA
continued to live a crowded social life despite the circles where she was not received. She corresponded with Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
, Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii. cvii |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | During a virulent smallpox epidemic, LMWM
had performed on her three-year-old daughter
the first inoculation in England. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999. 210-11 |
Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | Lennox made the adaptation at Garrick
's suggestion, following an unsuccessful one by Robert Dodsley
decades earlier. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018. 259 |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
wrote her surviving letters to her daughter, Lady Bute
. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols. 2: 366, 3: 281-2 |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
wrote some of her best-known letters: those to her daughter
about the education of her grand-daughters. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols. 2: 449-52, 3: 20-27 |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Textual Production | Lady Louisa Stuart | Alice G. Clark
published Gleanings from an Old Portfolio, including LLS
's letters to her sister Lady Portarlington
and others, and her mother
's letters to her. Stuart, Lady Louisa, and Caroline Stuart Dawson, Countess of Portarlington. Gleanings from an Old Portfolio. Editor Clark, Alice G., Privately printed for D. Douglas, 1895–1898, 3 vols. 1: 192ff |
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