Elizabeth Montagu
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Aug 24, 2026
ToddNARRATOR
I don't care a fig for the defection of the females, Mrs. Thrale remarked to her husband one morning over the breakfast table, tossing aside several notes.
ToddNARRATOR
Elizabeth Carter and Hannah Moore and Mrs. Montague will be only too glad to take their places.
ToddNARRATOR
But mark my words, it means that we shall lose the Lord Primate, Edmund Burke and Charles Fox, and I had rather counted on their adding luster to the affair.
ToddNARRATOR
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched, my dear, said Mr. Thrale.
ToddNARRATOR
I don't care a fig for the defection of the females, Mrs. Thrale remarked to her husband one morning over the breakfast table, tossing aside several notes.
ToddNARRATOR
Elizabeth Carter and Hannah Moore and Mrs. Montague will be only too glad to take their places.
ToddNARRATOR
But mark my words, it means that we shall lose the Lord Primate, Edmund Burke and Charles Fox, and I had rather counted on their adding luster to the affair.
ToddNARRATOR
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched, my dear, said Mr. Thrale.
ToddNARRATOR
I don't care a fig for the defection of the females, Mrs. Thrale remarked to her husband one morning over the breakfast table, tossing aside several notes.
ToddNARRATOR
Elizabeth Carter and Hannah Moore and Mrs. Montague will be only too glad to take their places.
ToddNARRATOR
But mark my words, it means that we shall lose the Lord Primate, Edmund Burke and Charles Fox.
ToddNARRATOR
And I had rather counted on their adding luster to the affair.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
It seemed again impossible to exclude various women of powerful and influential personality, though their achievements were not always considerable.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
I allude to such persons as Hannah More and Mrs. Montague.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
Even Mrs Somerville, the only feminine representative of science in my list, could scarcely be included were she not a woman, for she was little more than the accomplished popularizer of scientific results.
Leon HarveyNARRATOR
In one department, and one only, the women seem to be little, if at all, inferior to the men in ability.
Chufy GaliazziNARRATOR
Soon after the marriage, there had been some thought of a college for young ladies, of which Mrs. Barbold was to be the principal.
Chufy GaliazziNARRATOR
But she shrank from the idea, and in a letter to Mrs. Montague, she objects to the scheme of higher education for women away from their natural homes.
Chufy GaliazziNARRATOR
I should have little hope of cultivating a love of knowledge in a young lady of fifteen who came to me ignorant and uncultivated.
Chufy GaliazziNARRATOR
It is too late then to begin to learn.
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Chufy GaliazziNARRATOR
Much of Miss Aiken's work is more sustained than her aunt's desultory productions, but it lacks that touch of nature which has preserved Mrs. Barbauld's memory where more important people are forgotten.
Chufy GaliazziNARRATOR
Our authoress seems to have had a natural affection for sister authoresses.
Chufy GaliazziNARRATOR
Hannah More and Mrs. Montague were both her friends.
Chufy GaliazziNARRATOR
So were Madame d'Arblay and Mrs. Chapone in a different degree.