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Elizabeth Montagu, christened ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’ by Samuel Johnson, was famous in her lifetime as a Shakespeare critic, salon hostess and champion of women’s writing. She attracted the leading writers, politicians and artists of her day to her sparkling London assemblies, where she placed a new emphasis on conversation as a pleasurable and enlightened pursuit.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU, BLUESTOCKING BUSINESSWOMAN dowry.'o The couple had one child, a son, who died in 1744 before age two. By the time Edward died, relations between husband and wife had long been strained, and Scott worried that Montagu might even be disinherited, but Montagu's own letters express her conviction that in default of a male heir ...
Elizabeth Montagu née Robinson le 2 octobre 1718 à York et morte le 25 août 1800 à Londres, est une femme de lettres, réformatrice sociale, mécène, salonnière, critique littéraire anglaise et membre influente de la société des bas-bleus .
Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Robinson de nacimiento ( Yorkshire, 2 de octubre de 1720, - 25 de agosto de 1800), fue una famosa reformadora social, crítica literaria y escritora británica, que ayudó a organizar y liderar la Sociedad Bluestockings, un salón literario en Hill Street, Mayfair, Londres.
30 de jan. de 2014 · Elizabeth Montagu (2 October 1718 - 25 August 1800) was a bluestocking hostess and the author of An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare (1769). Family background. Elizabeth Robinson was born in York on 2 October 1718, the daughter of Matthew Robinson and his wife Elizabeth Drake. Both families were wealthy and well-connected, and ...
22 de mai. de 2015 · Abstract. This essay uses contemporary letters and verses to explore the philanthropy and patronage of Elizabeth Montagu (1720–1800). Remembered now almost solely as a Bluestocking she was equally well known during her lifetime as a benefactor who used her significant wealth and influence to support individual writers, artists and businessmen as well as those in need in the city and her ...
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.
