Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 4905, 1778. Résumé Called the ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’ in her own time, Elizabeth Montagu was perhaps the best-known salon hostess during the second half of the … 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 nine surviving siblings, Elizabeth … – and dropped – more easily than in London, she met many of the literary men and women who would later be part of the bluestocking circles. After her husband’s death in 1775, Elizabeth Montagu took over the direction of their coal mines in …
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