… London as well as in the country . People > Aristocracy People > Art and Literature Keywords Bluestockings Conversation Correspondence Politics Women Born in 1719, Frances Evelyn Glanville was a distant relative of diarist John Evelyn, and – … for her interest in, and disapproval of, the American War. 7 . Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761, ed Emily Climenson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1906] 2011), vol. I, p. … Chatham’s political courage as well as Samuel Foote’s wit came under scrutiny. 9 Hannah More not only kept up a lively correspondence with Mrs Boscawen, but also described Boscawen’s parties in her letters to others. Thus, in 1775, she …