Hester Lynch Piozzi

16 January 1741 - 02 May 1821

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.

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Connections Sort ascending	Author name	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Hannah More	Her later friendships often blended the personal with the political, like those with Beilby Porteus (Bishop of London from 1787, where she met him) and the abolitionists William Wilberforce (met at Bath the same year)...
Friends, Associates	Lady Eleanor Butler	Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...
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...
Friends, Associates	Germaine de Staël	One of her associates in her English visit was the future husband of Frances Burney . Burney thought her a woman of the first abilities, very much in the style of Mrs Thrale but with...
Friends, Associates	Sophia Lee	Hester Lynch Piozzi began a letter which almost admiringly describes SL living as a recluse and refusing to admit the visitors drawn by her fame. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xxxvii-xxxviii and n118
Friends, Associates	Sophia Lee	Their school, together with their literary careers, brought SL and her sisters a wide circle of friends and contacts, including Jane and Anna Maria Porter . The novelist Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins describes Sophia as surrounded...
Friends, Associates	Sophia Lee	Those present included Hester Lynch Piozzi , Hannah More and her sisters, Sarah Siddons , and others. The great point at issue was the gender of the anonymous author.
Friends, Associates	Henrietta Maria Bowdler	Frances Burney preferred HMB , as more kind and gentle, to her sister Frances Bowdler. Burney amusingly records a visit by herself, HMB and others, to Lady Miller of Batheaston on 8 June 1780, when...
Friends, Associates	Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan	She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in...
Fictionalization	Frances Burney	Bibliographer James Raven notes a crescendo in novelistic echoes of FB 's works during the 1780s. Burney's brother Charles , for instance, noted borrowings from both Evelina and Cecilia in his review for the Monthly...
Family and Intimate relationships	Anne Damer	The somewhat hostile witness Hester Piozzi alleged that AD (whom she called much suspected for liking her own Sex in a criminal way) was engaged in an affair with the leading actress Elizabeth Farren . Piozzi, Hester Lynch. Thraliana. Editor Balderston, Katharine, Clarendon. 2: 770
Family and Intimate relationships	Susannah Dobson	The couple had three children, two girls and a boy. The eldest, a girl, died in her teens, to their great sorrow; their son, too, died before his father. The other daughter, Susannah, married in...
Family and Intimate relationships	Dorothea Du Bois	Peter Du Bois enjoyed the patronage of Bishop George Berkeley , who was said to have emphasised his superiority to most musicians—evidence that the match was seen as mixing social classes in a manner analogous...
Family and Intimate relationships	Helen Maria Williams	HMW . it seems, had a life partner: English businessman and fellow radical John Hurford Stone , whom she met when she first visited Paris. He was married, but his wife had taken lovers...
Family and Intimate relationships	Susan Ferrier	The first important position of James Ferrier , SF 's father, was as Writer to the Signet. Later he was appointed Principal Clerk of Session and became estate manager to the Duke of Argyll ...

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