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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 | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Hester Lynch Salusbury (later HLP
) married the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 46 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Hester Thrale
's husband
confided in her that he had an Ailment, a swollen testicle; she, Poor Fool, was horrified, having no Notion but a Cancer. It was not that, but sexually transmitted disease. qtd. in Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Thrales of Streatham Park. Editor Hyde, Mary, Harvard University Press, 1977. 165-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Henry Thrale
, husband of Hester (later HLP
), died of apoplexy. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 199 |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Hester Thrale (later HLP
) and her first husband
met Samuel Johnson
for the first time. Johnson recorded this as 9 January, though HLP
later remembered it as the 10th. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 55n1 Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 54-5 |
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 | Samuel Johnson | 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... |
Textual Production | Hester Lynch Piozzi | HLP
's first husband
presented her with large blank books in which to record the social aspects of her life, and gave the record the pompous Title of Thraliana. qtd. in Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 145 |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Burney | As a frequenter of polite circles who was always short of money, FB
spent hours every year (hours which could have been employed in writing) making and keeping her clothes respectable. She wrote in January... |
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