Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
HL
wrote Verses for Hester Lynch Piozzi
, who recorded them in her Thraliana.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
1: 358n10
Literary responses
Harriet Lee
The Critical Review (which thought the first volume of Canterbury Tales resembled the work of Marmontel
, but happily without his profligate principles) was enthusiastic: We expect the second volume with impatience, as we have...
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...
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.
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...
Textual Features
Isabella Kelly
IK
tells with decorous energy the story of a remarkable woman. Henrietta Fordyce
(née Cummyng), whom IK
had known well in her youth, was brought up with Lady Anne Barnard
.
Boswell's is Johnson's most famous friendship, but his women friends were immensely important to him. Carter and Lennox were joined by Hester Thrale
(though Johnson always reckoned her husband, Henry Thrale
, if anything the...
Author summary
Samuel Johnson
Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ
achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and...
Textual Production
Georgette Heyer
GH
published another Regency romance, Sprig Muslin, whose heroine's name, Lady Hester Theale, is oddly close to that of the actual Hester Thrale
.
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head.
209
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Hervey
Hester Piozzi
referred all this as common knowledge when she met EH
. Hervey remained a friend of Merry
after his marriage and perhaps shared his acquaintance with the Irish patriot Lord Edward Fitzgerald
...
Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1.
xvii
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
This work extends and deepens the pictures given in her first book of reminiscences both of Johnson
and his circle and of other people including women writers. LMH
expresses admiration for Hester Piozzi
's letter...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ann Hatton
Hester Lynch Piozzi
observed her indignant melancholy about the discovery.
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.
