Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… and Elizabeth Drake Robinson, were well connected among the Yorkshire gentry, her father having gained a reputation as a wit in London coffee houses, besides excelling as an amateur painter of landscapes. The family later moved to Kent where Elizabeth’s mother had inherited a small estate. Elizabeth made friends with the future Duchess of Portland, Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, at an early age, and would frequently spend some … and the Bulstrode circle may well have influenced Elizabeth Montagu’s own decision to start a literary salon afterwards. Witty, lively, and good-looking, Elizabeth Robinson had many suitors, and in 1742, aged 22, she settled for a man some 29 …
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