Elizabeth Montagu
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Standard Name: Montagu, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Robinson
Nickname: Fidget
Nickname: The Two Peas (with Sarah Scott)
Nickname: The Queen of the Blues
Married Name: Elizabeth Montagu
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, eighteenth-century Bluestocking leader, is known on the one hand as an informal letter-writer, and on the other hand for ambitious critical intervention in canonicity and cultural debates, with her critical study of Shakespeare
and dialogues of the dead.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | HMB
's mother, a baronet's heiress and an intellectual, was born Elizabeth Stuart Cotton
in about 1718. Four of her children grew up to be writers. She was an acquaintance of Elizabeth Montagu
, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler |
Friends, Associates | Mary Deverell | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes both that MD
received patronage from Bristol heiress Ann Lovell Gwatkin
, and that Hannah More
emphatically did not take to her, though their paths must repeatedly have... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | There she began to frequent Elizabeth Montagu
's bluestocking circle. She was introduced in cultural circles by Andrew Kippis
, minister of the church her family attended, and soon knew William Hayley
, Sarah Siddons |
Friends, Associates | Mary Harcourt | MH
and her husband
subscribed in 1803 to Poems by the widowed Mrs George Sewell (Mary Sewell)
. Other subscribers included Elizabeth Carter
, Elizabeth Cobbold
, Catherine Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Arabella Rowden |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany
, Elizabeth Montagu
, and Samuel Johnson
. From 1777 she... |
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 Carter | EC
associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Thomas Birch
, Moses Browne
, Richard Savage
, William
and John Duncombe |
Friends, Associates | Anne Hunter | Among Anne's personal friends and guests at her gatherings were Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Delany
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Hester Thrale
, her niece by marriage Joanna Baillie
(whom she first met when Baillie came... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Reynolds | |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Boswell's is Johnson's most famous friendship, but his women friends were immensely important to him. Carter and Lennox were joined by Hester Thrale
(though Johnson always reckoned her husband, Henry Thrale
, if anything the... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | Their children's education provided opportunities to Lord and Lady Craven to act as literary patrons. In 1778, at the suggestion of Elizabeth Montagu
, Elizabeth Craven took on as governess the writer Madame Vaucluse (... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During her childhood, ECK
associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds
(sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
met Elizabeth Montagu
for the first time (after some months' correspondence) when on her honeymoon trip she visited Montagu's house in Hill Street, Mayfair, London site of the famous bluestocking salon. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 147 McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi. xliv Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958. 80 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | In Genoa in February 1763 DC
and her husband entertained Jones, W. Powell, and William, scholar Robinson. “The William Robinsons in Italy”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 4 , No. 3, Apr. 1941, pp. 343-57. 352, 357 |
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 |
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