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".

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Anna Williams
There were fifty stipends on offer and more than five hundred people applied. Moreover, the terms of the charity turned out to exclude Welsh people. All her life Williams found personal friends more helpful than...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Reynolds
FR pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men.
Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, pp. 2: 250 - 300.
2: 252
She remarks on the paternal affection he entertained...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS says she has often found that my own selection of relevant detail has lighted on facts passed over as insignificant by other writers.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Private Life of Mrs. Siddons. V. Gollancz.
11
She hopes to place her subject in a light, possibly...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Katharine Elwood
Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Burney
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Seward
AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...
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...
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...
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...
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
Textual Production Elizabeth Montagu
EM 's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory , Eliza Berkeley , Mary Delany , Ann Donellan , and Hester Thrale , besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and...
Textual Production Elizabeth Montagu
A TLS review by R. W. Chapman sounded distinctly anti-feminist. He wrote that by employing heroic remedies, the indomitable editor has cut away all the elaborate openings and studied conclusions, masses of domestic detail, nine-tenths...
Textual Production Hannah More
Mary Ann Burges 's anonymous The Progress of Pilgrim Good-Intent, in Jacobinical Times was widely supposed (for instance by Hester Piozzi and Lady Eleanor Butler ) to be by Hannah More .
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
3: 186-7 and n
Textual Production Anna Seward
She had herself carefully revised her twelve manuscript volumes of copies, and had left them to a publisher. Scott (himself among her correspondents) said he would not help to perpetuate such gossip as the letters...

Timeline

July 1773: The Westminster Magazine printed, along with...

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July 1773

The Westminster Magazine printed, along with its account of Oxford University 's annual degree-giving, an article by L. P.On the Propriety of Bestowing Academical Honours on the Ladies.

January 1781-December 1782: The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties...

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January 1781-December 1782

The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry appeared, published by James Harrison in four half-yearly numbers; it is arguable whether or not it kept the first number's promise of generous selections of work...

April 1782: Hester Thrale recorded in her journal a poem...

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April 1782

Hester Thrale recorded in her journal a poem by Anne Hunter which seems to be the first English rendering of a Native American death song.

1 April 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about...

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1 April 1789

Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about Marie Antoinette ) indignantly recorded what she presents as if it was her first encounter with lesbianism.

April 1789: The Gentleman's Magazine published Anna Seward's...

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April 1789

The Gentleman's Magazine published Anna Seward 's selection of living celebrated Female Poets.

7 December 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi heard the African John...

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7 December 1789

Hester Lynch Piozzi heard the African John Frederick Bridgetower speaking in public at Bath, to great applause, and wrote how Dr. Johnson would have adored that Man!

January 1793: Hester Piozzi reported the indignant melancholy...

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January 1793

Hester Piozzi reported the indignant melancholy of the actress Sarah Siddons , who had been infected with syphilis by her husband.

By 22 July 1797: William Beckford published a second and more...

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By 22 July 1797

William Beckford published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.

1 August 1815: The surveyor William Smith dated his first-ever...

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1 August 1815

The surveyor William Smith dated his first-ever geological map of Britain; the national Geological Society cold-shouldered him and published its own map, five years later, which was essentially a plagiarism of his.

29 April 1852: Physician and polymath Peter Mark Roget published...

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29 April 1852

Physician and polymath Peter Mark Roget published his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases; it went through 25 editions in its first two decades, and remained an influential writing tool into the twenty-first century.

6 May 2009: The antiquarian book collection of the late...

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6 May 2009

The antiquarian book collection of the late Paula Fentress Peyraud (the largest in private hands), auctioned in New York, fetched more than $1.5 million US. Books by women between 1760 and 1830 predominated.

Texts

Piozzi, Hester Lynch. Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson. T. Cadell, 1786.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. British Synonymy. G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, editor. Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson. A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788.
Shaw, William, and Hester Lynch Piozzi. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late Dr. Samuel Johnson. Editor Sherbo, Arthur, Oxford University Press, 1974.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany. A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. Retrospection. J. Stockdale, 1801.
Johnson, Samuel, and Hester Lynch Piozzi. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Clarendon Press, 1984.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 2002.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Thrales of Streatham Park. Editor Hyde, Mary, Harvard University Press, 1977.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. Thraliana. Editor Balderston, Katharine, Clarendon, 1942.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. Three Warnings to John Bull Before He Dies. R. Faulder, 1798.