Conyers Middleton

SS was educated with her sister and brothers. Their mother's stepfather, Dr Conyers Middleton , apparently took a great interest in his step-grandchildren's education, although the sisters' letters mocked him.

Elizabeth was well-schooled along with her brothers and her sister. Commentators make much of the contribution supposedly provided by their step-grandfather, Cambridge scholar Conyers Middleton ; but in letters to her sister and to the...

LMWM acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage and Henry Fielding , but also Edward Young and Samuel Boyse . Books to which...