Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… dialogues to George Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead (1760), and was, for quite a while, on friendly terms with Samuel Johnson , who seems to have admired her knowledge on literature. For his pejorative remarks on her Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare (1769), there is only Boswell’s word, but they did fall out when Johnson maltreated Lyttelton in his Lives of the Poets (1779-1781). 5 . For sociograms of the bluestocking networks, see …
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