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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]

… Abstract Called the ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’ in her own time, Elizabeth Montagu was perhaps the best-known salon hostess during the second half of the … Affluent and generous, she set her own stamp on fashionable London society. People > Art and Literature Keywords Bluestocking Salon Hostess Shakespeare Bulstrode Friendship Correspondence The fourth child of nine surviving siblings, … – and dropped – more easily than in London, she met many of the literary men and women who would later be part of the bluestocking circles. After her husband’s death in 1775, Elizabeth Montagu took over the direction of their coal mines in …

Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]

… Her sociable life in Britain’s major social centers, London and Bath, enabled her to use her closeness to the bluestocking circle and later her membership of the evangelical group, the Clapham Sect, to embark on crusades against … moral reformation. People > Religion & Philanthropy Practices > Politics & Society Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Bluestocking Education Evangelicalism Friendship Manners Philanthropy Poverty Reformation Religion Slavery Women … recognition. 1 There, thanks to her friends’ letters of introduction, she rubbed shoulders with the literati of the bluestocking circle, dominated by Mrs Montagu of whom she quickly became a protégée . It is undoubtedly her status as a …

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… Abstract Often considered a contradictory character herself, Hester Thrale Piozzi, now best remembered as a Bluestocking hostess and biographer of Samuel Johnson, embodies some of the contradictions of eighteenth-century sociable … by means of her social gatherings and through her literary works. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Bluestockings Salon Literature biography Italy commerce Born into a Welsh family proud of its ancestry, Hester Lynch … role as the fashionable hostess of a literary salon (including a lavish dinner table), vying with, and accepted by, the Bluestocking queen Elizabeth Montagu, who frequently visited at Streatham, and who was vice versa visited by the Thrales …

Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]

… since music-making was only part of the entertainment, and conversation also took up a fair amount of time. As in the Bluestocking salons, members of the aristocracy freely mixed with the talented, and women, musicians as well as visitors, … the Enlightenment; they may not even qualify as a ‘salon’ when compared to those of the Parisian salonnières or the Bluestockings, but if one follows Dena Goodman’s definition, they should be accepted as a musical equivalent: ‘What … since music-making was only part of the entertainment, and conversation also took up a fair amount of time. As in the Bluestocking salons, members of the aristocracy freely mixed with the talented, and women, musicians as well as visitors, …

Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]

… from 1825 onwards, in Curzon Street. Berry, herself an avid reader, who studied Greek, stood in the tradition of the bluestockings, which she helped to preserve into the nineteenth century, but she was not close enough to the original bluestocking circles to be counted as one of them. 1 . Anon, ‘[Review of] Extracts of [sic!] the Journals and …

Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]

… construction of modern public opinion see, for instance, Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz, Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings (London: Yale University Press, 2008); Amanda Vickery (ed.), Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, …