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ELIZABETH ROBINSON MONTAGU (1720-1800)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 746 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELIZABETH See also:ROBINSON See also:MONTAGU (1720-1800)  , See also:English See also:leader of society, was See also:born at See also:York on the 2nd of See also:October 1720 . In 1742 she married See also:Charles See also:Montagu, See also:cousin of See also:Edward Wortley Montagu and son of the See also:earl of See also:Sandwich—a wealthy See also:man, considerably her See also:senior . Thanks to her, his Mayfair See also:house became the social centre of intellectual society in See also:London, and her breakfast parties and evening conversaziones gained for her from her admirers the See also:title of " The Madame du See also:Deffand of the English See also:capital." In other quarters the See also:term " See also:blue-See also:stocking " was applied to her guests . From her See also:husband, who died in 1775, she inherited a considerable See also:fortune and large estates, in the management of which she showed much ability . In 1781 she built Sandleford Priory, near See also:Newbury, and Montagu House, now 22 Portman Square, London, the latter from designs by See also:James See also:Stuart . With the colliers in the See also:north she was extremely popular, and every May-See also:day she entertained the London See also:chimney-sweeps . She died on the 25th of See also:August 1800 . There is an admirable portrait of her by See also:Reynolds . See See also:Elizabeth Montagu, the See also:Queen of the Blue Stockings: Her See also:Correspondence from 1720 to 1761, edited by E . J . Climenson (2 vols.,1906) ; and R . Huchon, Mrs Montagu and her See also:Friends, 1720–1800 (Eng. trans., 1907) .

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