biography
| name: |
Montagu, Elizabeth
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née Robinson
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pronunciation:
[montagyoo]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1720–1800)
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| biography:
| Writer and society leader, born in York, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. In 1742 she married Edward Montagu, grandson of the 1st Earl of Sandwich, thus became a cousin by marriage to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She established a salon in Mayfair which became the heart of London social and literary life. The members became known as ‘Bluestockings’, from the way several of them dressed. |
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