Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… a Social Role (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), p. 17-54, p. 51-54. Today, Elizabeth Montagu’s fame rests mostly on her literary letters to other bluestockings and their associates. Writing to her sister, the novelist Sarah Scott, Montagu confessed, … ‘ I don’t see how a sociable Being can live without writing ‘ , and the Huntington Library now holds some 6,923 letters and manuscripts left by Montagu and her correspondents , which are currently being edited by the Project Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO). 6 Most of these letters have not been published before, though a first selection appeared in 1810-1813, compiled by her adopted nephew …
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