Record ID:
35359174 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50003803
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1718-10-02
  • York (England)
Death:
  • 1800-08-25
Associated with:
  • Great Britain
Lived/located in:
  • London (England)
Fields of activity:
  • Literature Letter writing
Occupations:
  • Authors Socialites
Used for:
  • Montagu, Elizabeth Robinson, 1718-1800
  • Robinson, Elizabeth, 1718-1800
Notes:
  • Data provided by the ESTC/BL
  • LC manual auth. card (Montagu, Elizabeth Robinson, 1720-1800)
  • DNB (Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, 1720-1800; authoress and leader of society; elder daughter of Matthew Robinson)
  • Oxford Dictionary of National biography, viewed online May 13, 2016 (Montagu [née Robinson], Elizabeth (1718-1800), author and literary hostess, was born at York on 2 October 1718, the first daughter and fifth child of Matthew Robinson (1694-1778) of Edgeley and West Layton, Yorkshire, and his wife, Elizabeth (c.1697-1746). Elizabeth Montagu has been called the 'queen of the blue stockings'. Montagu's letters (written over nearly seventy years) are among the most important surviving collections from the eighteenth century. Elizabeth Montagu died at Montagu House [Hill Street, Mayfair, London] on 25 August 1800)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)216961
  • 000000361056
  • abv00315133
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC Uk DLC Uk OCoLC ANL
Authentication code:
  • kin