Mary Stuart Countess of Bute

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.

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...

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...

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...

LMWM 's daughter married Lord Bute in the parish of Marylebone, London.

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...

EMA continued to live a crowded social life despite the circles where she was not received. She corresponded with Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe , and claimed to have built a friendship with Lady Bute (daughter...

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...

During a virulent smallpox epidemic, LMWM had performed on her three-year-old daughter the first inoculation in England.

Lennox made the adaptation at Garrick 's suggestion, following an unsuccessful one by Robert Dodsley decades earlier. An edition followed on 27 November. Lady Bute (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 's daughter) had politely...

LMWM wrote her surviving letters to her daughter, Lady Bute .

LMWM wrote some of her best-known letters: those to her daughter about the education of her grand-daughters.

LMWM 's lifelong diary was burned in two instalments. When she eloped she left the early portion behind, and her sister burned it lest it should fall into her father 's hands. Just before she...

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.