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.
The first important position of James Ferrier
, SF
's father, was as Writer to the Signet. Later he was appointed Principal Clerk of Session and became estate manager to the Duke of Argyll
...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Fielding
SF
's most important sibling was her brother Henry
, first as the eldest child and later as a highly successful novelist and playwright (as well as theatre manager and lawyer). She kept house for...
Literary responses
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Hester Lynch Piozzi
evidently felt later that these stories were very strong meat for children. She commented in a letter, I think a great Change has been made in Taste of popular Literature—or rather popular...
Literary responses
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
This novel soon went through four editions, but readers included the disapproving as well as the fascinated. Hester Thrale
roundly pronounced it obscene; the Gentleman's Magazine agreed, though less outspokenly.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
61
Both the Critical and...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Catherine Gore
Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales
and his mistress Lady Jersey
downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox
, apostrophised as one of the great and...
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Tod, Andrew, Canongate.
1: 51-2
The daughter of a clergyman, she was descended from Norman ancestry, and she married John Peter Grant on...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Harcourt
Elizabeth Harcourt's verse comprised of one bound volume of poetry, the majority of which was transcribed by herself. She was also heavily involved in the collection of three volumes of poems by other authors (many...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ann Hatton
Hester Lynch Piozzi
observed her indignant melancholy about the discovery.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
14: 21
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...
Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1.
xvii
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Hervey
Hester Piozzi
referred all this as common knowledge when she met EH
. Hervey remained a friend of Merry
after his marriage and perhaps shared his acquaintance with the Irish patriot Lord Edward Fitzgerald
...
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
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...
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...