Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… century. She was a towering figure in circles promoting literary sociability, and a respected literary critic after her publication of an essay on Shakespeare refuting Voltaire’s criticism of the dramatist. Affluent and generous, she set her … to Romanticism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 68. 2 . See Emma Major, ‘The Politics of Sociability: The Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium’, in Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg (eds), Reconsidering the … Now! The Evolution of a Social Role (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), p. 17-54. Major, Emma, ’The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium’, in Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg (eds.), Reconsidering the …
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