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Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 1 (of 2)

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME ONE
By Mrs. Montagu
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The volume collects extensive personal correspondence and biographical narrative tracing an influential hostess's early life, marriage, and social career, interweaving her letters with those of friends. It presents everyday details—fashion, household management, health, entertainments—and records literary conversation, religious reflection, and philanthropic efforts such as establishing schools and assisting dependents. Through exchanges with contemporary intellectuals and aristocratic acquaintances, it illuminates the networks and tastes of a learned circle, their debates, and the social customs of the period, while offering editorial notes that arrange and contextualize the papers.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
VOL. I.

Mrs. Montagu (née Elizabeth Robinson) Frontispiece
From a miniature by C. F. Zincke, in the possession of The Hon. Elizabeth Montagu, Farnham Royal. (Photogravure.)
TO FACE PAGE
Mount Morris, near Hythe, Kent 8
From an old print, 1809.
Miss Morris, Grandmother of Mrs. Montagu 16
From a picture (artist unknown), in the possession of the Hon. Elizabeth Montagu. (Photogravure.)
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Robinson (Mrs. Montagu’s Father and Mother) 32
From a picture by W. Hamilton, in the possession of The Hon. Elizabeth Montagu, Farnham Royal. (Photogravure.)
W. Freind, D.D., Dean of Canterbury 64
From the picture by T. Worlidge.
William, Second Duke of Portland 76
From the picture by Thomas Hudson, in the possession of the Duke of Portland. (Photogravure.)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 80
From a miniature (artist unknown), in the possession of Mrs. Climenson. (Photogravure.)
Sir Thomas Robinson (1st Baron Rokeby) 100
From a picture (artist unknown), in the possession of The Hon. Elizabeth Montagu, Farnham Royal. (Photogravure.)
Morris Robinson 144
From the picture by the Rev. M. W. Peters, R.A., in the possession of The Hon. Elizabeth Montagu, Farnham Royal. (Photogravure.)
Sandleford Priory, near Newbury, Berkshire 152
From a photograph.
Denton Hall, Northumberland 160
Margaret Cavendish Harley, Duchess of Portland 192
From the picture by Thomas Hudson, in the possession of the Duke of Portland. (Photogravure.)
Lady Lechmere (née Howard), Afterwards Lady (Thomas) Robinson 208
From a picture (artist unknown), in the possession of The Hon. Elizabeth Montagu, Farnham Royal. (Photogravure.)
Gilbert West 296
From an engraving by E. Smith, after W. Walker.
Robinson Pedigree In pocket at end of Vol.