Hester Lynch Piozzi

16 January 1741 - 02 May 1821

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.

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Textual Features	Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger	EOB writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld for praising Elizabeth Rowe . She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington is the real author of...
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...
Textual Production	Anne Hunter	AH left four manuscript volumes of poetry, three now at the Royal College of Surgeons and one at Aberdeen University . Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009. xviii The works that she left unprinted were chiefly songs (some of them pastoral)...
Textual Production	Jean Plaidy	The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...
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	Leah Sumbel	It is often said (for instance by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) that Topham's main aim in this venture was to boost her career. The World was known for featuring personal attacks on...
Textual Production	Harriet Lee	HL wrote Verses for Hester Lynch Piozzi , who recorded them in her Thraliana. Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols. 1: 358n10
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, 1989–2002, 6 vols. 3: 186-7 and n
Textual Production	Virginia Woolf	VW 's last work completed for publication was her essay on Hester Thrale Piozzi , in the form of a review of James Clifford 's recent biography of her. The review appeared on 8 March...
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...
Textual Production	Beryl Bainbridge	BB published another historical novel, According to Queeney, about Hester Thrale and Samuel Johnson , whose narrative sticks unusually close to its sources. Eilenberg, Susan. “Leaf, Button, Dog”. London Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2001, pp. 13-15. 13
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...
Textual Production	Jan Morris	More than a decade later, in 1978, JM followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...
Textual Production	Samuel Beckett	In late 1937 SB was at work on a play about the relationship between Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale , Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press, 1973. ix-x which he intended to begin with her death (many years, therefore, after the relationship...

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