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.

Full profile

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Anne Katharine Elwood	Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi
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...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Anna Seward	AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Naomi Royde-Smith	NRS says she has often found that my own selection of relevant detail has lighted on facts passed over as insignificant by other writers. Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Private Life of Mrs. Siddons. V. Gollancz, 1933. 11 She hopes to place her subject in a light, possibly...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Camilla Crosland	In the preface she declares that she sought to simply set before the young women of the present day examples of wives and mothers who have done their duty under difficulties and temptations; and if...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Frances Reynolds	FR pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men. Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, 1897, pp. 2: 250 - 300. 2: 252 She remarks on the paternal affection he entertained...
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...
Wealth and Poverty	Anna Williams	There were fifty stipends on offer and more than five hundred people applied. Moreover, the terms of the charity turned out to exclude Welsh people. All her life Williams found personal friends more helpful than...

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.