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  1. Elizabeth Montagu (née Robinson; 2 October 1718 – 25 August 1800) was a British social reformer, patron of the arts, salonnière, literary critic and writer, who helped to organize and lead the Blue Stockings Society. Her parents were both from wealthy families with strong ties to the British peerage and learned life.

  2. Elizabeth Montagu (* 2. Oktober 1718 in Yorkshire ; † 25. August 1800 in London ) war eine englische Salondame , Schriftstellerin und Mäzenin , die die „ Blaustrumpf “-Bewegung im England des 18.

  3. Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800), author and Bluestocking salonnière, was a leading woman of letters and artistic patron of her day. Her correspondence is considered 'among the most important surviving collections from the eighteenth century' ( ODNB ).

  4. Elizabeth Montagu (born Oct. 2, 1718, York, Eng.—died Aug. 25, 1800, London) was one of the first Bluestockings, a group of English women who organized conversation evenings to find a more worthy pastime than card playing.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  5. Elizabeth Montagu, christened ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’ by Samuel Johnson, was famous in her lifetime as a Shakespeare critic, salon hostess and champion of women’s writing. She attracted the leading writers, politicians and artists of her day to her sparkling London assemblies, where she placed a new emphasis on conversation as a ...

  6. Montagu, Elizabeth (1720–1800) British socialite and author who reigned as London's foremost intellectual hostess for half a century. Born Elizabeth Robinson in York on October 2, 1720; died in London on August 25, 1800; eldest daughter of Matthew Robinson (a Yorkshire landowner) and Elizabeth Drake Robinson (a Cambridge heiress); sister of ...

  7. Bluestocking, author and hostess, Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) exercised an influence far beyond literary scholarship. Compiled by a relative, Emily Climenson, and published in 1906, this collection of her correspondence provides an excellent introduction to the culture and politics of eighteenth-century polite society. In chapters enriched ...