Selected Bibliography:
Elizabeth Robinson Montagu
(1720-1800)
By Elizabeth
Fay,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Last revised 9 June 1999
Bibliographies
- Women Writers of the Restoration and the Eighteenth
Century (York, Penna.: York College of Pennsylvania, 1986).
Editions
Works
- Elizabeth Eger, ed., Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of
The Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1785, vol. 1, Elizabeth Montagu
(Brookfield, VT: Pickering and Chatto, 1999).
- Marjorie Hanson, Elizabeth Montagu: A Biographical Sketch
and a Critical Edition of Her Writings, Ph.d. dissertation,
University of Southern California, 1982 (DAI 42, no. 12
[June 1982]: 5128A-29A).
- George Lyttleton, Baron Lyttleton, Dialogues of the
Dead (London, 1760). "The last three dialogues are by Mrs.
Elizabeth Montagu. With this is bound 'An essay on the
picturesque,' by Uvedale Price. London, 1794."
- Elizabeth Montagu, An Essay on the Writings and Genius of
Shakespear Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets.
With Some Remarks upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de
Voltaire, 3rd ed. (London, 1772).
- Elizabeth Montagu, An Essay on the Writings and Genius of
Shakespear, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets.
With Some Remarks upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de
Voltaire. To which are now first added, Three Dialogues of the
Dead, 4th ed. (London, 1777).
Correspondence
- Leonore H. Ewert, Elizabeth Montagu to Elizabeth Carter:
Literary Gossip and Critical Opinions from the Pen of the Queen
of the Blues (article, cited in DAI 29 [1968]:
566A-67A).
- Richard Wendorf and Charles Ryskamp, "A Blue-Stocking
Friendship: The Letters of Elizabeth Montagu and Frances Reynolds
in the Princeton Collection," Princeton University Library
Chronicle 41 (1980): 173-207.
- Bluestocking Letters (London: John Lane, The Bodley
Head, 1926). Introduction; Mrs. Montagu, 1720-1800; Mrs. Vesey,
1715-1791; The Hon. Mrs. Boscawen, 1719-1805; Mrs. Chapone,
1727-1801; Miss Carter, 1717-1806.
- Elizabeth Montagu, The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu:
With Some of the Letters of Her Correspondents, 2nd ed.
(London, 1809). On the spine: "Mrs Montagu's letters. pt. 1.
Containing her letters from an early age to the age of
twenty-three. 2 v. -- pt.2. Containing her letters from the age
of twenty-three to forty, ending with the coronation of George
the Third. 2v."
- Elizabeth Montagu, The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu
with Some of the Letters of Her Correspondents (London,
1809-13).
- Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Blue-Stockings, Her
Correspondence from 1720 to 1761 (London: Murray, 1906).
- Elizabeth Montagu, Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, to
Mrs. Montagu, between the Years 1755 and 1800 Chiefly upon
Literary and Moral Subjects (London, 1817).
- Bluestocking Letters, ed. Reginald Brimley Johnson
(London: L. MacVeagh, 1926).
Criticism
Introductions and Overviews
- John Doran, A Lady of the Last Century (Mrs. Elizabeth
Montagu): Illustrated in Her Unpublished Letters; Collected and
Arranged, with a Biographical Sketch, and a Chapter on Blue
Stockings, 2nd ed. (London, 1873; repr. New York: AMS Press,
1973).
- Yvonne Day Merrill, The Social Construction of Women's
Rhetoric before 1750 (Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1996).
Correspondence
- Edith Sedgewick Larson, "A Measure of Power: The Personal
Charity of Elizabeth Montagu," Studies in Eighteenth-Century
Culture 16 (1986): 197-210.
- James E. May, "An Unpublished Letter from Edward Young to Mrs
Montagu, 7 July 1761," Notes and Queries 39, no. 1 (March
1992): 54-56. The letter fills out the story of Young and
Montagu's long and mutually supportive friendship, and reveals
Montagu's role in prompting Young to write his final poem,
"Resignation."
Related Subjects: The Bluestocking Circle
- Janet Ray Edwards, "Singing the Blues: The Voices of
Eighteenth-Century Bluestockings and Later Literary Women,"
Review 14 (1992): 45-56.
- Sylvia Harcstark Myers, The Bluestocking Circle: Women,
Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century
England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).
- Ruth Perry, "Bluestockings in Utopia," in History, Gender,
and Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed. Beth Fowkes Tobin
(Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1994).
- Pat Rogers, "Richardson and the Bluestockings," in Samuel
Richardson: Passion and Prudence, ed. Valerie Grosvenor Myer
(London: Vision, 1986).
- Daniel Arnold Solberg, "The Ladies and the Lion: The
Bluestockings and Samuel Johnson," Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of
South Florida, 1995 (DAI 56, no. 4 [Oct. 1995]: 1373A).
Related Correspondence
- Elizabeth Carter, A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth
Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the Year 1741 to 1770: To
which are added, Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs.
Vesey, between the Years 1763 and 1787 (London, 1808).
- Catherine Talbot, The Works of the Late Miss Catherine
Talbot, First Published by the Late Mrs. Elizabeth Carter; and
Now Republished with Some Few Additional Papers, together with
Notes and Illustrations and Some Account of Her Life, 9th ed.
(London, 1795).
Electronic Resources
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