planned to share a home in later life. But although pains from my infancy to fill my head with supersti-Montagu settled a pension on Carter immediately af-tious tales and false notions, it was none of her fault I ter her husband's death, the two friends never lived am not at this day afraid of witches and hobgoblins, together. Affectionate friendship marked the Blue-or turned Methodist." Educated in part by tutors, stocking women, that group of London ladies with Montagu was largely self-taught and began writing perhaps Montagu at the center, which created a fo-poetry when she was twelve. In 1712 she eloped with rum for social, literary, artistic, and intellectual inter-Edward Wortley Montagu, appointed Ambassador ests. The Bluestockings looked to one another for in-Extraordinary to the Court of Turkey in 1716. Jour-tellectual support, and in their self-sufficiency neying with her husband to Constantinople, she be-demonstrated the strengths of womanly community. gan to write the letters that would establish her repu-Through her Bluestocking parties, Montagu brought tation as an author. The couple returned to England together women and men of diverse backgrounds, in 1718 and, encouraged by Pope, Montagu settled at interests, and beliefs to share ideas: "I have always Twickenham with their two children, Mary, who mar-pitied a certain set of people who some years ago called ried John Stuart and became Lady Bute, and Edward, themselves the 'little world,' it is so much better to be whose marriages and profligate spending constantly of the general world . . . to be able to converse with embarrassed his family. Resuming her travels in 1739, ease, and hearken with intelligence to persons of ev-in part at the invitation of the Italian Count Algarotti, ery rank, degree and occupation." Montagu resided first at Avignon and then at Lovere; she returned in January 1762, after the death of her husband and at the request of her daughter, and died

DOI link for planned to share a home in later life. But although pains from my infancy to fill my head with supersti-Montagu settled a pension on Carter immediately af-tious tales and false notions, it was none of her fault I ter her husband's death, the two friends never lived am not at this day afraid of witches and hobgoblins, together. Affectionate friendship marked the Blue-or turned Methodist." Educated in part by tutors, stocking women, that group of London ladies with Montagu was largely self-taught and began writing perhaps Montagu at the center, which created a fo-poetry when she was twelve. In 1712 she eloped with rum for social, literary, artistic, and intellectual inter-Edward Wortley Montagu, appointed Ambassador ests. The Bluestockings looked to one another for in-Extraordinary to the Court of Turkey in 1716. Jour-tellectual support, and in their self-sufficiency neying with her husband to Constantinople, she be-demonstrated the strengths of womanly community. gan to write the letters that would establish her repu-Through her Bluestocking parties, Montagu brought tation as an author. The couple returned to England together women and men of diverse backgrounds, in 1718 and, encouraged by Pope, Montagu settled at interests, and beliefs to share ideas: "I have always Twickenham with their two children, Mary, who mar-pitied a certain set of people who some years ago called ried John Stuart and became Lady Bute, and Edward, themselves the 'little world,' it is so much better to be whose marriages and profligate spending constantly of the general world . . . to be able to converse with embarrassed his family. Resuming her travels in 1739, ease, and hearken with intelligence to persons of ev-in part at the invitation of the Italian Count Algarotti, ery rank, degree and occupation." Montagu resided first at Avignon and then at Lovere; she returned in January 1762, after the death of her husband and at the request of her daughter, and died

planned to share a home in later life. But although pains from my infancy to fill my head with supersti-Montagu settled a pension on Carter immediately af-tious tales and false notions, it was none of her fault I ter her husband's death, the two friends never lived am not at this day afraid of witches and hobgoblins, together. Affectionate friendship marked the Blue-or turned Methodist." Educated in part by tutors, stocking women, that group of London ladies with Montagu was largely self-taught and began writing perhaps Montagu at the center, which created a fo-poetry when she was twelve. In 1712 she eloped with rum for social, literary, artistic, and intellectual inter-Edward Wortley Montagu, appointed Ambassador ests. The Bluestockings looked to one another for in-Extraordinary to the Court of Turkey in 1716. Jour-tellectual support, and in their self-sufficiency neying with her husband to Constantinople, she be-demonstrated the strengths of womanly community. gan to write the letters that would establish her repu-Through her Bluestocking parties, Montagu brought tation as an author. The couple returned to England together women and men of diverse backgrounds, in 1718 and, encouraged by Pope, Montagu settled at interests, and beliefs to share ideas: "I have always Twickenham with their two children, Mary, who mar-pitied a certain set of people who some years ago called ried John Stuart and became Lady Bute, and Edward, themselves the 'little world,' it is so much better to be whose marriages and profligate spending constantly of the general world . . . to be able to converse with embarrassed his family. Resuming her travels in 1739, ease, and hearken with intelligence to persons of ev-in part at the invitation of the Italian Count Algarotti, ery rank, degree and occupation." Montagu resided first at Avignon and then at Lovere; she returned in January 1762, after the death of her husband and at the request of her daughter, and died