Hester Lynch Piozzi

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Standard Name: Piozzi, Hester Lynch
Birth Name: Hester Lynch Salusbury
Married Name: Hester Lynch Thrale
Married Name: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Pseudonym: H: L: T.
Pseudonym: An Old Acquaintance of the Public
Pseudonym: An Old Woman
Self-constructed Name: H: L: P.
Used Form: Hester Thrale
Hester Lynch Thrale, later Hester Lynch Piozzi , was by inclination and practice a woman of letters as well as a woman of the world. She loved recording facts and details; she was an incisive critic (of real learning) and a great entertainer. She wrote poems, translations, essays, letters, journals, memoirs, and works of scholarship, and she published both during the later eighteenth and during the earlier nineteenth century.
Half-length engraving of Hester Lynch Piozzi by M. Meyer, from portrait by J. Jackson, May 1810. She is seated, and is in mourning, wearing a simple dark dress with a cloak around her shoulders, and a large hat decorated with a bow. Her name is below: "Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi".

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Harriet Lee
Hester Piozzi particularly admired the last ten lines of the prologue, which apply the imagery of bubbles and rainbows to comedy and tragedy.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
2: 333 and n19
She felt the epilogue, though playful and pretty...
Literary responses Hannah More
Percy was a great hit, with twenty-one performances, and 4,000 copies sold by March 1777. HM made £600 from it in the theatre, and £150 from Cadell for the copyright. She thought, however, the public...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
The Critical Review gave high praise to each of the series. So did the Monthly, which also cracked her anonymity from the beginning.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
46 (1778): 160; 47 (1779): 320
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
191-2
Vulnerable as a Dissenter,...
Literary responses Sophia Lee
Audiences liked the play, and the theatre's takings were good. But it was performed only four times, with one more showing at the end of the season after SL had complained to the management. This...
Literary responses Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
This novel soon went through four editions, but readers included the disapproving as well as the fascinated. Hester Thrale roundly pronounced it obscene; the Gentleman's Magazine agreed, though less outspokenly.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
61
Both the Critical and...
Literary responses Helen Maria Williams
Hester Piozzi thought the farewell poem mighty pretty.
Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press.
77
Literary responses Elizabeth Montagu
The patriotism of EM 's riposte ensured its enthusiastic reception. Readers (among them a brother of Elizabeth Carter , who refrained from enlightening him) assumed that the anonymity of this authoritative critical voice concealed a...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales and his mistress Lady Jersey downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox , apostrophised as one of the great and...
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs Martin
Indeed, as in MM 's previous novels, the narrative technique contributes largely to the reader's enjoyment. The narrator addresses the reader as dear Madam, then (without modifying this address) invites her to call the narrator...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Radcliffe
Critic Margaret Doody identifies Emily's poem The Sea-Nymph as a response to Anna Seward 's Song of the Fairies to the Sea-nymphs, while Rictor Norton notes that the incident in which Emily hears gondoliers...
Intertextuality and Influence Angela Brazil
In addition to the whimsy which fairies regularly elicited from AB , this volume combines comedy and horror in the dinner menu of an ogre in The Enchanted Fiddle, which runs from Ploughboy Soup...
Health Mary Robinson
MR was still young when her health collapsed completely.
Highfill thinks the crucial episode which brought on her physical collapse was connected with the hardship of theatrical touring in the English provinces.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
13: 36
Tarleton's...
Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
LA met Hester Lynch Piozzi in or near Bath.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters. Editor Le Breton, Philip Hemery, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green.
115-16
Friends, Associates Hannah More
Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke in Bristol the previous September...
Friends, Associates Oliver Goldsmith
Goldsmith met and became a friend and associate of Edmund Burke , Samuel Johnson , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and others belonging to the Club, of which he was a founder member. He was a...

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