Elizabeth Montagu

Elizabeth Montagu (1720 - 1800), was an English literary critic.

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1720 - 1800 - English - Critic

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Christened Elizabeth Robinson, she was the daughter of 1st Baron Rokeby, and married a grandson of Lord Sandwich. She was one of the

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Baron Rokeby - Lord Sandwich

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original "blue-stockings," and her house was a literary centre. She wrote

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an Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare (1769), in which she

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compared him with the classical and French dramatists, and defended him

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against the strictures of Voltaire. It had great fame in its day, but has

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long been superseded.

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