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Elizabeth Montagu: Queen of the Bluestockings Gill Woodcock Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800) was a central figure in the Bluestocking Circle in eighteenth-century London. Samuel Johnson called her ‘Queen of the Blues’. Whilst she was best known as a salon hostess, she was also a writer and a businesswoman. Montagu was a patron to several ...
Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu (geboren Robinson, York, 2 oktober 1720 – Londen, 25 augustus 1800) was een Engels sociaal hervormster, mecenas, schrijfster en zakenvrouw. Montagu was de oprichter van de Blue Stockings Society . Elizabeth was de oudste van drie dochters in het zeer welgestelde gezin van Matthew Robinson en Elizabeth ...
"Elizabeth Montagu" published on by null. (1720–1800),a celebrated member of the Blue Stocking Circle. Dr Johnson was amazed by her ‘radiations of intellectual excellence’ and dubbed her ‘Queen of the Blues’.
3 de mai. de 2024 · Bluestocking, author and hostess, Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) exercised an influence far beyond literary scholarship. Compiled by a relative, Emily Climenson, and published in 1906, this collection of her correspondence provides an excellent introduction to the culture and politics of eighteenth-century polite society.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU 87 Robinson, was used in I873 by Dr. John Doran as the excuse for a biography of Mrs. Montagu.6 In recent years many scholars have dipped into the Montagu Collection at the Huntington Library, although it is still only partly catalogued. What promises to reveal more of the unpublished rich-
Elizabeth Montagu (née Robinson) (1718-1800), Writer and leader of society. Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 11 portraits. Elizabeth Montagu was a Shakespeare critic and salon hostess, patron of the arts, literary critic, and writer. She was christened 'Queen of the Blues' by the writer Samuel Johnson, in recognition of her ...
The Huntington’s collection of Elizabeth Montagu’s extensive correspondence has provided a rich source—as well as a practical challenge—for scholars working in a variety of fields, from social and economic history to the histories of medicine, aesthetics, authorial selfhood, and literary genres. Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (1718–1800 ...
