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	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...
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...
Friends, Associates	Lady Eleanor Butler	Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...
Family and Intimate relationships	Lady Eleanor Butler	They were outraged, and at once sought legal advice from Edmund Burke (who had experienced image problems of a not dissimilar kind). Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 83-4 Brideoake, Fiona. “Keep Yourself in Your Own Persons, Where You Are: The Ladies of Llangollen and Queer Self-Fashioning”. 42nd ASECS Annual Meeting. This episode was remarkable partly because such hostility was unusual. But not...
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...
Friends, Associates	Frances Burney	FB made friends in the older generation as well as her own. The whole Burney family loved and were loved by David Garrick . Sir Joshua Reynolds , who lived barely fifty yards away from...
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...
Material Conditions of Writing	Frances Burney	She chose her imaginary confidante's name, she wrote, to signify she had Nobody to whom she could confide everything without reserve. Later this confidential teenage diary gave way to a more social type, generally taking...
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...
Literary responses	Frances Burney	Hester Thrale recorded a significant dissenting voice: nine months after publication, Mrs Montagu cannot bear Evelina. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 172 The stumbling-block was probably the low elements of the book.
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...
Publishing	Margaret Bryan	The full title runs A Compendious System of Astronomy, in a course of familiar lectures; in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not...
Intertextuality and Influence	Angela Brazil	In addition to the whimsy which fairies regularly elicited from AB , this volume combines comedy and horror in the dinner menu of an ogre in The Enchanted Fiddle, which runs from Ploughboy Soup...
Friends, Associates	Henrietta Maria Bowdler	Frances Burney preferred HMB , as more kind and gentle, to her sister Frances Bowdler. Burney amusingly records a visit by herself, HMB and others, to Lady Miller of Batheaston on 8 June 1780, when...
Friends, Associates	Henrietta Maria Bowdler	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...

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