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.
A curious text closely related to the journals though not part of them consists of four large notebooks written in French in FB
's hand during the years of her residence abroad, with corrections by...
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.
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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Eleanor Butler
They were outraged, and at once sought legal advice from Edmund Burke
(who had experienced image problems of a not dissimilar kind).
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph.
83-4
Brideoake, Fiona. “Keep Yourself in Your Own Persons, Where You Are: The Ladies of Llangollen and Queer Self-Fashioning”. 42nd ASECS Annual Meeting.
This episode was remarkable partly because such hostility was unusual. But not...
Textual Production
Lady Eleanor Butler
LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
wrote some of their voluminous correspondence jointly. Writing was one of their major pleasures; they selected paper with loving care, and kept an equally careful tally of replies received and of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC
was still reading and commenting on others' works into her old age. She read and remarked on Hester Piozzi
, Charlotte Smith
, Edward Gibbon
, Erasmus Darwin
's The Loves of the Plants...
Textual Features
Jane Collier
The commonplace-book throws light on Collier's other extant writings as well. A casual mention of what Sally calls the Turba proves definitively that at least one neologism in The Cry stemmed not from her but...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Camilla Crosland
In the preface she declares that she sought to simply set before the young women of the present day examples of wives and mothers who have done their duty under difficulties and temptations; and if...
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
.
MD
continued to make new friends late in life (though she was said to have declined to meet Hester Thrale
).
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
60
The king
and queen
were remarkably attentive to her in her widowhood. Prominent...
Friends, Associates
Susannah Dobson
Rather like her friend Lennox, Dobson had difficulty making her way in literary London society. She got off on the wrong foot with Frances Burney
in 1780 by spreading word of the authorship of Evelina...
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...
