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 nine … invited members of the upper as well as middle classes, men as well as women, professionals and amateur lovers of literature, to their various homes, mostly in London but also in the country, for gatherings which did not involve the … (1760), and was, for quite a while, on friendly terms with Samuel Johnson, who seems to have admired her knowledge on literature. For his pejorative remarks on her Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare (1769), there is only …
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