A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Montague, (Mrs.)
The education of this lady was superintended by her relation, the celebrated Conyers Middleton, and she gave early testimonies of taste and genius. Her Essay, in vindication of the morality of Shakespeare's drama, against the criticisms of Voltaire, has always been highly esteemed. Mrs. Montague's society comprized the most respectable of the literati, in all ranks of life. She wrote the three last Dialogues of the Dead, which were published by Lord Lyttleton, and have been considered as some of the best. Her Letters are highly extolled for their wit and vivacity. In private life, her benevolence was unbounded—one instance of it, that of her annual dinner to the chimney sweepers, a forlorn and unfriended race, deserves to be commemorated.
Mrs. Montague was the eldest daughter of Sir Septimus Robinson, Knt. in East Kent; sister of Lord Rokeby, and of Mrs. Scott, who died in 1795, having written several popular novels.