“The love of fame is a passion of which the bare acknowledgment is a disgrace, but with which the heart of man is so deeply tinctured, that it is hard to get it all out.”

About Elizabeth Montagu

Writer • British

Elizabeth Montagu was a prominent 18th-century British social reformer, patron of the arts, and writer. She is best known as one of the founders and leaders of the Blue Stockings Society, a women's social and...