“To dress a room for Montagu”: Pacific Cosmopolitanism and Elizabeth Montagu’s Feather Hangings
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
the businesswoman and critic Elizabeth Montagu held a breakfast reception. The party was lavish even by her high standards, and was intended to display the extravagant renovation of her Portland Square townhouse in London. Among the new decorations was a set of enormous panels covered with thousands of feathers sewn into colourful floral wreaths and festoons. Montagu showed these feather panels off to several hundred guests, including Queen Charlotte and five of her daughters. They were described in detail in the next day's newspapers. In Montagu's "feather-room," noted a breathless report on this "elegant fte" printed in more than half a dozen London papers, "the walls are wholly covered with feathers, artfully sewed together." 1 The feathers were "from all parts of the world," marvelled another writer, and had "been ten years in collecting." 2 Their colours had "wonderful effects on a feather ground of a dazzling whiteness," and the "numerous and splendid company," it was concluded, "expressed the warmest approbation of the taste and magnificence of Mrs. MONTAGU." 3 This was presumably all very 1.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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