Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Richard Samuel, ‘Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 4905, 1778. … three 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 …
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