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.
IK
tells with decorous energy the story of a remarkable woman. Henrietta Fordyce
(née Cummyng), whom IK
had known well in her youth, was brought up with Lady Anne Barnard
.
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...
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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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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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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, 1984.
