Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… Shakespeare refuting Voltaire’s 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 … Drake Robinson, were well connected among the Yorkshire gentry, her father having gained a reputation as a wit in London coffee houses, besides excelling as an amateur painter of landscapes. The family later moved to Kent where … year at Tunbridge Wells taking the waters. There, where friendships could be begun – 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 …
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