George first Baron Lyttelton

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...

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...

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

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...

She begins cautiously by quoting Woman's noblest station is retreat (from George Lyttelton 's notorious Advice to a Lady, 1731) and by claiming some political role for woman in spite of proper femininity:...

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...

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...

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

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

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). In the dialogues she...

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. Again she published allusively, as the Author...

EM contributed, anonymously, three dialogues to Dialogues of the Dead by her friend George, Lord Lyttelton .

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.

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...

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...