Montagu, Elizabeth

Montagu, Elizabeth

▪ English intellectual
née  Robinson  
born Oct. 2, 1720, York, Eng.
died Aug. 25, 1800, London
 one of the first Bluestockings (q.v.), a group of English women who organized conversation evenings to find a more worthy pastime than card playing. She made her house in London's Mayfair the social centre of intellectual society, regularly entertaining such luminaries as Lord Lyttelton, Horace Walpole, Samuel Johnson, and Sir Joshua Reynolds (who painted her portrait).

      In 1760 she contributed to Lyttleton's Dialogues of the Dead, and in 1769 she published an Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear. Her husband died in 1775, leaving her a large fortune and sizable estates, including Sandleford Priory, which she enlarged. In 1781 she built Montagu House, now 22 Portman Square, London.

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