Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

She married Edward Montagu a wealthy man with extensive holdings to become one of the wealthiest women of her era. '


Salon and cultural life
In London Elizabeth began to be a celebrated hostess. While young Elizabeth became a friend of Lady Margaret Harley the only surviving child of Edward Harley 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.

Elizabeth Montagu (2 October 1718 – 25 August 1800) was a British social reformer patron of the arts salonist literary critic and writer who helped organize and lead the bluestocking society. She devoted this wealth to fostering English and Scottish literature and to the relief of the poor. She married Edward Montagu a wealthy man with extensive holdings to become one of the wealthiest women of her era.