Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 4905, 1778. 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 … and generous, she set her own stamp on fashionable London society. People > Art and Literature Keywords Assemblies Bluestockings Conversation Correspondence Friendship Women The fourth child of nine surviving siblings, Elizabeth … I consider, not merely as pleasures transient, but as permanent blessings […]’ ( Myers 11). 1 . See Eger, Elizabeth, Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 68. 2 . See …
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