Hester Lynch Piozzi

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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.
  • BirthName: Hester Lynch Salusbury
  • Self-constructed: H:L:P:
    She used this persona for vivid self-projection in her late letters.
  • Married: Thrale; Piozzi
    HLP kept a firm hold on her second baptismal name, and she acquired fame through her association with Samuel Johnson under her first married name. She is well known as Mrs Thrale, and at this period of her life she signed herself H: L: T. But as a published author she is HLP .
  • Pseudonyms: An Old Acquaintance of the Public; An Old Woman
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".

Milestones

16 January 1741

Hester Lynch Salusbury (later HLP ) was born at Bodvel, Caernarfonshire, Wales.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
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25 March 1786

From ItalyHLP arranged the publication of her Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
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By December 1815

HLP finished writing her last major work, left unfinished and unpublished: Lyford Redivivus; or, A Grandame's Garrulity: a study of proper names, signed An Old Woman.
Her title alludes to Edward Lyford 's obscure tome of 1655, The Book of the Etymology of Names; or, The true interpretation and etymologie of Christian Names.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
436

2 May 1821

HLP died at Clifton near Bristol, about six weeks after a fall in which she injured a leg.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
454, 456

Biography

Birth and Background

16 January 1741

Hester Lynch Salusbury (later HLP ) was born at Bodvel, Caernarfonshire, Wales.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
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