… of the bluestocking circle, dominated by Mrs Montagu of whom she quickly became a protégée . It is undoubtedly her status as a playwright that enabled her to strike a lifelong friendship with David Garrick and his wife Eva and to …
… and a growing interest in media history, have nevertheless gone a long way to restoring something of their once iconic status. 19 . Donald F. Bond (ed.), The Spectator (5 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), volume 1, p. lxxxvii-xcii. 20 …