… range of philanthropic, social, and cultural activities’. These ranged from ‘rescuing fallen women […] to organising subscriptions for publishing works by deserving authors’ 4 ,especially female authors in the case of Montagu. In 1781, at …
… Thus she (unsuccessfully) tried to get Dr Charles Burney appointed as organist in the Queen’s Band in 1782 and collected subscriptions for Frances Burney’s novel Camilla in 1796. 11 Four volumes of Boscawen’s letters to Hester Pitt, Lady …
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