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. In chapters enriched by portraits of both Elizabeth and her correspondents, readers are invited to witness the public and personal interactions and entertainments of Montagu and her circle. The text contains accounts of operas, masquerades, concerts and marriages, and serious...
Bluestocking, author and hostess, Elizabeth Montagu (1718 1800) exercised an influence far beyond literary scholarship. Compiled by a relative, Emily ...
This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (1718 1800), the 'Queen of the Bluestockings', was edited by her nephew and adopted son Matthew (1762 1831) and published in 1809 13. The daughter of wealthy parents, and well educated in history and languages, at the age of twenty-one she married Edward Montagu, a grandson of the earl of Sandwich whose income derived from northern estates and coal mines, and began to establish a London salon attended by the intellectual cream of British society, including Johnson, Burke, Garrick, Hannah More and Hester Chapone. The letters (and...
This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (1718 1800), the 'Queen of the Bluestockings', was edited by her nephew and adopted s...