Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 weeks as her guest at Bulstrode after the Duchess’s marriage. Elizabeth Montagu would later remember Bulstrode as the happy seat of what turned out to be a companionate marriage spreading the new light of rational domesticity. The Duke and Duchess valued interesting company, and the Bulstrode circle may well have influenced Elizabeth Montagu’s own decision to …
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