Sylvia Harcstark Myers
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198117674
- eISBN:
- 9780191671043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198117674.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, Women's Literature
This chapter discusses Elizabeth Montagu (nee Robinson), who became an outspoken female critic. Despite the different problems in her life, Montagu strove to manage her interests and her ...
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This chapter discusses Elizabeth Montagu (nee Robinson), who became an outspoken female critic. Despite the different problems in her life, Montagu strove to manage her interests and her relationships with family and friends in order to maintain some form of control in her life. Due to her critiques and works, Montagu reaped many social benefits but did not publish any more during her later years.Less
This chapter discusses Elizabeth Montagu (nee Robinson), who became an outspoken female critic. Despite the different problems in her life, Montagu strove to manage her interests and her relationships with family and friends in order to maintain some form of control in her life. Due to her critiques and works, Montagu reaped many social benefits but did not publish any more during her later years.
Emma Major
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199699377
- eISBN:
- 9780191738029
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699377.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter looks at some women who were claimed by their contemporaries as examples to the nation or as women who benefited the public. It begins with Elizabeth Burnet, who was involved in the ...
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This chapter looks at some women who were claimed by their contemporaries as examples to the nation or as women who benefited the public. It begins with Elizabeth Burnet, who was involved in the religious revival following the Glorious Revolution. It then discusses the critic, patron, and hostess Elizabeth Montagu, arguing that she saw herself as part of a patriotic pantheon of women and enjoyed describing herself in relation to Elizabeth I, Amazons, businesswomen, farmers, coalminers, witches, Lady Bountiful, and other types of woman. Catherine Talbot was a patriotic and religious exemplar in a very different way: part of the household of a clergyman who became archbishop, she was closely involved in Church matters and wrote fascinating journals. The chapter concludes by discussing Talbot’s journals and her criticism of Samuel Richardson’s novel Sir Charles Grandison.Less
This chapter looks at some women who were claimed by their contemporaries as examples to the nation or as women who benefited the public. It begins with Elizabeth Burnet, who was involved in the religious revival following the Glorious Revolution. It then discusses the critic, patron, and hostess Elizabeth Montagu, arguing that she saw herself as part of a patriotic pantheon of women and enjoyed describing herself in relation to Elizabeth I, Amazons, businesswomen, farmers, coalminers, witches, Lady Bountiful, and other types of woman. Catherine Talbot was a patriotic and religious exemplar in a very different way: part of the household of a clergyman who became archbishop, she was closely involved in Church matters and wrote fascinating journals. The chapter concludes by discussing Talbot’s journals and her criticism of Samuel Richardson’s novel Sir Charles Grandison.
Anne Stott
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199274888
- eISBN:
- 9780191714962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199274888.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses Hannah More's transition from playwright to Evangelical activist. She was now part of the bluestocking circle, a friend of Elizabeth Montagu and Elizabeth Carter, and was ...
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This chapter discusses Hannah More's transition from playwright to Evangelical activist. She was now part of the bluestocking circle, a friend of Elizabeth Montagu and Elizabeth Carter, and was depicted in Richard Samuel's The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (1779) as Melpomene, the muse of tragedy. The Bas Bleu, her poem that celebrated the bluestockings, was praised by Johnson. She became one of the many female friends and correspondents of Horace Walpole and her Bishop Bonner's Ghost was the last work to be printed by his Strawberry Hill press. She also tried to rescue a madwoman known as ‘Louisa’ or ‘the Lady of the Haystack’. Her patronage of Ann Yearsley, the ‘Bristol milkwoman’ was an ignominious failure. Her purchase of Cowslip Green near Wrington in Somerset was a sign that she was turning her back on fashionable Society.Less
This chapter discusses Hannah More's transition from playwright to Evangelical activist. She was now part of the bluestocking circle, a friend of Elizabeth Montagu and Elizabeth Carter, and was depicted in Richard Samuel's The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (1779) as Melpomene, the muse of tragedy. The Bas Bleu, her poem that celebrated the bluestockings, was praised by Johnson. She became one of the many female friends and correspondents of Horace Walpole and her Bishop Bonner's Ghost was the last work to be printed by his Strawberry Hill press. She also tried to rescue a madwoman known as ‘Louisa’ or ‘the Lady of the Haystack’. Her patronage of Ann Yearsley, the ‘Bristol milkwoman’ was an ignominious failure. Her purchase of Cowslip Green near Wrington in Somerset was a sign that she was turning her back on fashionable Society.
Sylvia Harcstark Myers
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198117674
- eISBN:
- 9780191671043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198117674.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, Women's Literature
This chapter discusses the different events that occurred in Bulstrode, which ultimately became the basis of the ‘bluestocking circle’ activities that Elizabeth Montagu soon undertook upon her ...
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This chapter discusses the different events that occurred in Bulstrode, which ultimately became the basis of the ‘bluestocking circle’ activities that Elizabeth Montagu soon undertook upon her departure from the country retreat. Montagu described her time in Bulstrode as the happiest in her life, where she was able to discover a new way of thinking.Less
This chapter discusses the different events that occurred in Bulstrode, which ultimately became the basis of the ‘bluestocking circle’ activities that Elizabeth Montagu soon undertook upon her departure from the country retreat. Montagu described her time in Bulstrode as the happiest in her life, where she was able to discover a new way of thinking.
JoEllen DeLucia
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748695942
- eISBN:
- 9781474408677
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748695942.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter examines the Bluestockings’ role in the development of the Scottish Enlightenment’s cross-cultural theories of human development and in the popularization of their literary equivalent, ...
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This chapter examines the Bluestockings’ role in the development of the Scottish Enlightenment’s cross-cultural theories of human development and in the popularization of their literary equivalent, Macpherson’s Ossian poems. In addition to recovering the epistolary record of Elizabeth Montagu’s influence on major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment as well as the popular Ossianic feasts she incorporated into her London salons, it discusses the Ossianic imitations of Catherine Talbot, Montagu’s friend and contemporary. Montagu’s Ossian-themed feasts—attended by James Macpherson, other Scottish literati, and her Bluestocking circle—enacted the equivalent social relationships and produced the refined social sentiments conjectured in Macpherson’s poems and theorized in the Scottish Enlightenment. Montagu’s correspondence documents the Bluestockings’ responses to the work of their Scottish contemporaries and their contribution to the new maps of historical development generated by the Scots at mid-century. The final portion of this chapter argues that Catherine Talbot tested this emergent historical consciousness in her Ossianic imitations, which reflect on the Seven Years War and women’s role in the civilizing process.Less
This chapter examines the Bluestockings’ role in the development of the Scottish Enlightenment’s cross-cultural theories of human development and in the popularization of their literary equivalent, Macpherson’s Ossian poems. In addition to recovering the epistolary record of Elizabeth Montagu’s influence on major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment as well as the popular Ossianic feasts she incorporated into her London salons, it discusses the Ossianic imitations of Catherine Talbot, Montagu’s friend and contemporary. Montagu’s Ossian-themed feasts—attended by James Macpherson, other Scottish literati, and her Bluestocking circle—enacted the equivalent social relationships and produced the refined social sentiments conjectured in Macpherson’s poems and theorized in the Scottish Enlightenment. Montagu’s correspondence documents the Bluestockings’ responses to the work of their Scottish contemporaries and their contribution to the new maps of historical development generated by the Scots at mid-century. The final portion of this chapter argues that Catherine Talbot tested this emergent historical consciousness in her Ossianic imitations, which reflect on the Seven Years War and women’s role in the civilizing process.
Anne Stott
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199274888
- eISBN:
- 9780191714962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199274888.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Between 1774 and his death in 1779, Hannah More was a close friend of David Garrick and his wife, Eva Marie Veigel, and her account of his retirement from the stage in the same year is one of the ...
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Between 1774 and his death in 1779, Hannah More was a close friend of David Garrick and his wife, Eva Marie Veigel, and her account of his retirement from the stage in the same year is one of the best sources for this important moment in the history of the theatre. She also became friends Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the bluestocking, Elizabeth Montagu It was thanks to Garrick that her tragedy, Percy, was performed at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1777 to great acclaim. In the same year, she began her career as a conduct book writer with the publication of her Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies. Garrick's death in 1779 caused a prolonged crisis. Her play The Fatal Falsehood was poorly received and led to accusations of plagiarism.Less
Between 1774 and his death in 1779, Hannah More was a close friend of David Garrick and his wife, Eva Marie Veigel, and her account of his retirement from the stage in the same year is one of the best sources for this important moment in the history of the theatre. She also became friends Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the bluestocking, Elizabeth Montagu It was thanks to Garrick that her tragedy, Percy, was performed at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1777 to great acclaim. In the same year, she began her career as a conduct book writer with the publication of her Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies. Garrick's death in 1779 caused a prolonged crisis. Her play The Fatal Falsehood was poorly received and led to accusations of plagiarism.
Brian Bonnyman
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748642007
- eISBN:
- 9781474405980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642007.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
Continuing on from chapter 2, this chapter charts the Duke of Buccleuch’s life and career on his return from his Grand Tour in 1766, including his marriage to Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the death of his ...
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Continuing on from chapter 2, this chapter charts the Duke of Buccleuch’s life and career on his return from his Grand Tour in 1766, including his marriage to Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the death of his stepfather, Charles Townshend, the end of his minority and the full inheritance of his estates, and his emergence into Scottish public life. In particular, it focuses on the Duke’s decision to base himself in Scotland, his initial attempts to reform the management of his estates and the key role played by Adam Smith during this period. The influence of Smith’s ideas on the Duke’s choice of career and attempted reforms are examined in detail, as is the role of the Duke’s reforms in the passing of the general Entail Act of 1770. Finally, the Duke’s and Smith’s involvement in the aftermath of the failure of the Ayr Bank in 1772 is also scrutinised.Less
Continuing on from chapter 2, this chapter charts the Duke of Buccleuch’s life and career on his return from his Grand Tour in 1766, including his marriage to Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the death of his stepfather, Charles Townshend, the end of his minority and the full inheritance of his estates, and his emergence into Scottish public life. In particular, it focuses on the Duke’s decision to base himself in Scotland, his initial attempts to reform the management of his estates and the key role played by Adam Smith during this period. The influence of Smith’s ideas on the Duke’s choice of career and attempted reforms are examined in detail, as is the role of the Duke’s reforms in the passing of the general Entail Act of 1770. Finally, the Duke’s and Smith’s involvement in the aftermath of the failure of the Ayr Bank in 1772 is also scrutinised.
