Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… Bluestocking sociability was based on the advance of politeness as extolled for instance by David Hume in ‘Of Refinement in the Arts’: civilization here is based on a social exchange between men and women who meet and correspond on … Montagu, Letter to The Chronicle (December 1762 ). David Hume, Essays, Moral, and Political, and Literary , 'On Refinement in the Arts' (1741, 1777 ). Hannah More, The Bas Bleu ( 1786 ). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Of The Love of Fame (1734) Letter to The Chronicle (1762) Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) The Bas Bleu (1786) … Called the ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’ in her own time, Elizabeth …
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