Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… criticism of the dramatist. Affluent and generous, she set her own stamp on fashionable London society. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Assemblies Bluestockings Conversation Correspondence Friendship Women The fourth child of … valued interesting company, 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 … who died in infancy. Montagu suffered from ill health (mostly called ‘nervous’ and occasionally ‘bilious’) and spent part of almost every year at Tunbridge Wells taking the waters. There, where friendships could be begun – and dropped – …
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