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This paper explores the political function of Elizabeth Montagu’s Berkshire estate in travel writer Mary Morgan’s 1795 publication A Tour to Milford Haven, in the Year 1791. The travelogue is politically invested both in problematizing radical ideologies and the British government’s wartime policies and in providing an alternative model of governance based on the relational leadership found within Montagu’s Sandleford community. Of central importance to Morgan’s political argument is the contrast she creates between the socioeconomic philosophies manifest in Montagu’s perfectly ordered estate in Berkshire and in the Duke of Marlborough’s imposing palace in Oxfordshire. Whereas Montagu’s relational approach to leadership results in a profoundly peaceful and productive community bound by loyalty rather than by fear, the Duke of Marlborough’s authoritarian approach to power ultimately creates detachment and engenders disillusionment. Her juxtaposition of the two estates subtly suggests both the need and a plan for the reform of Britain’s leadership and political practices that incorporates the communitarian principles modeled in Montagu’s community.

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“The Tranquility of a Society of Females”: Mary Morgan’s A Tour to Milford Haven, Elizabeth Montagu, and the Transformative Politics of Female Governance