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SUMMARY:"Chatting on paper": Conversation and Correspondence in the World o
 f Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800)
DESCRIPTION:\nEighteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Boo
 k Trade\n\nLecture by Elizabeth Eger\, King's College London\n\n\nElizabet
 h Montagu\, dubbed "Queen of the Bluestockings" by Samuel Johnson\, was an
  author\, an industrialist\, and an avid consumer of books\, who valued re
 ading as the route to intellectual freedom. Famous in her lifetime\, she w
 as at the heart of several Enlightenment social networks and championed wo
 men’s writing and education. In 1925 A. S. W. Rosenbach\, a book dealer 
 from Philadelphia\, travelled to London to acquire her correspondence\, wh
 ich he described as "The most extraordinary collection of autograph letter
 s of the greatest literary and social leaders of the eighteenth century ev
 er offered for sale." He sold the letters to Henry Huntington\, and ever s
 ince\, scholars have made a pilgrimage to Los Angeles to read them. (Some 
 6\,900 are at the Huntington\; others are held in other distinguished arch
 ives including the Clark Library.) This talk will offer an introduction to
  Montagu’s world. Through discussion of selected letters\, and one of Mo
 ntagu’s "Dialogues of the Dead" (Dialogue III\, between Plutarch\, Charo
 n and a Modern Bookseller)\, Dr. Eger will reveal that eighteenth-century 
 women were highly aware of the potential profits and losses of the eightee
 nth-century trade in books\, wit\, and conversation.\n\nElizabeth Eger (Ki
 ng’s College London) is a writer with an academic background in the hist
 ory of eighteenth-century literature and ideas. She first visited Los Ange
 les in 1998 to research Montagu’s Essay on Shakespeare (1769) for volume
  one of the six-volume Bluestocking Feminism edited by Gary Kelly (1990). 
 She has published widely in the field of bluestocking cultural history. He
 r work has included an exhibition\, Brilliant Women (National Portrait Gal
 lery\, 2008)\; the book Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenmen
 t to Romanticism (Basingstoke: Palgrave\, 2010)\, and co-edited books on
  luxury and visual culture\; and she is currently writing a biography of E
 lizabeth Montagu for Oxford University Press. She is a Consultant Editor a
 nd Trustee for the charity Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online\, a new
  open-access project designed to be accessible to all those interested in 
 Montagu and her many worlds.\n\n\n\nThe lecture is free to attend with adv
 ance registration. It will be held in-person at the Clark Library and live
 streamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. No registration is required to
  watch the livestream.  Registration will close on Monday\, December 4 at
  5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library\; walk-in registrants a
 re welcome as space permits.\n\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Mrs. (Elizabeth) 
 Montagu. An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear. London: Printe
 d for Edward and Charles Dilly\, 1777. PR2975 .M758 1777 *
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 \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States
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