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
Reception Hannah More
Not all responses were positive: according to Hester Lynch Thrale , this work of HM 's caused boys at the elite Westminster School to burn her in effigy.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
113
Reception Alice Meynell
AM 's diligent recuperation of women's literary history nonetheless marks her as a predecessor of some of Woolf's feminist concerns. They both wrote about some of the same women, including, for example, Jonathan Swift's Stella...
Reception Henrietta Maria Bowdler
The sermons met with immediate and continuing success, reaching nearly fifty editions. (OCLC WorldCat lists no known copy of the first.) HMB found herself in correspondence with half the leaders of high-minded thought in...
Publishing Mary Wollstonecraft
It was dedicated to the French statesman Talleyrand , a supporter of the Revolution and the reputed lover of Germaine de Staël . She produced a second, revised edition by the end of the year...
Publishing Hannah More
By 23 July 1794, following the appearance of Paine's The Age of Reason, Porteus was urging More to write on the evidences of Christianity in the style of her Village Politics. She declined...
Publishing Margaret Bryan
The full title runs A Compendious System of Astronomy, in a course of familiar lectures; in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not...
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...
Performance of text Beryl Bainbridge
In a spin-off from According to Queeney, BB wrote a theatre sketch about Johnson and Thrale , with music, which she and Richard Ingrams performed together at Stoke-on-Trent on 15 August 2002.
King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury .
463-4
Occupation Frances Reynolds
Samuel Johnson was eager to sit for her, and did so on three occasions: in March 1775, in June 1780, and in summer 1783. He may have been sitting for her on the day before...
Occupation Anna Williams
AW was much involved with the Ladies' Charity School in King Street, Snow Hill (founded in 1702), where poor girls were taught reading and writing as well as needlework and household skills before being apprenticed...
Material Conditions of Writing Frances Burney
She chose her imaginary confidante's name, she wrote, to signify she had Nobody to whom she could confide everything without reserve. Later this confidential teenage diary gave way to a more social type, generally taking...
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...
Literary responses Frances Burney
Hester Thrale recorded a significant dissenting voice: nine months after publication, Mrs Montagu cannot bear Evelina.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press.
172
The stumbling-block was probably the low elements of the book.
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...

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