Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… an essay on Shakespeare refuting Voltaire’s criticism of the dramatist. Affluent and generous, she set her own stamp on fashionable London society. People > Art and Literature Keywords Assemblies Bluestockings Conversation Correspondence … Street in London and her country estate, Sandleford in Berkshire, then, in 1781, she had a new house built for her in fashionable Portman Square which would serve as a representative basis for her already famous literary salons. Along with … the Montagus’ house in Hill Street, London, which turned into evening assemblies by the 1760s, and were later staged at fashionable Portland Square in 1781, moving into a house Montagu had herself commissioned after her husband’s death in …
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