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.
One of HMB
's male friends was James Plumptre
, younger brother of the writers Anne
and Annabella
(though the sisters' radical politics were diametrically opposed to those of the Bowdler family). By 1802 she...
Friends, Associates
Ann Radcliffe
While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,...
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
Mary Delany
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
Anna Williams
Williams enjoyed cordial relations with other members of Johnson's circle, like Elizabeth Carter
(who helped with subscriptions for Williams's book when Johnson was dragging his feet) and Hester Thrale
(who contributed). Carter counted her a...
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
...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Montagu
EM
met and became friends with Hester Thrale (later Piozzi
).
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
255-7
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Montagu
EM
met Frances Burney
at Hester Thrale
's house, Streatham Park, near London.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon.
106-7
Friends, Associates
Frances Reynolds
Hester Thrale
was an exception to the consensus of opinion (shared by Johnson) that FR
was indecisive: she wrote admiringly of FR's presence of mind in saving a dinner party threatened by the bad behaviour...
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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Helen Maria Williams
HMW
. it seems, had a life partner: English businessman and fellow radical John Hurford Stone
, whom she met when she first visited Paris. He was married, but his wife had taken lovers...
Family and Intimate relationships
Susan Ferrier
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
Harriet Lee
Hester Lynch Piozzi
was trying unsuccessfully to bring about a marriage between HL
and the widowed marchese Ludovico Trotti
, who seemed to be in love with her.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
1: 356-7, 360 and n7-9
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...
