Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth Robinson)

MONTAGU, MRS. (ELIZABETH ROBINSON), an English social leader; born in York, England, Oct. 2, 1720. She married Edward Montagu, grandson of the 1st Earl of Sandwich. Her residence in Portman Square was the meeting place of the celebrated “Blue-Stocking Club” (origin of this famous term). Among her visitors and associates were Burke, Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, etc. She wrote three of Lord Lyttelton's “Dialogues of the Dead” (4th ed. 1765); “Letters” (1809). She died in London, Aug. 25, 1800.