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31 de jul. de 2021 · Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury, later Mrs Thrale) by George Dance, pencil, 1793. NPG 1151 . On 23 July 1784 Hester Lynch Thrale married the Italian, Roman Catholic singer Gabriel Piozzi despite the opposition of her children and her friends, including Samuel Johnson , the literary lion who had lived with her intermittently for the past twenty years.
27 de oct. de 2010 · Meeting Hester Thrale early on, the young Scottish diarist and lawyer James Boswell instantly resented her, recalling in a letter to her that at their first meeting: “I told you, Madam, that you and I were rivals for the great man.” Boswell was referring to Johnson’s affections: as yet, he and Mrs Thrale were not rival biographers of Johnson.
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi , a Welsh-born diarist, author, socialite and patron of the arts, is an important source on Samuel Johnson and 18th-century English life. She belonged to the prominent Salusbury family, Anglo-Welsh landowners, and married first a wealthy brewer, Henry Thrale, with whom she had 12 children, then a music teacher, Gabriel Mario Piozzi. Her Anecdotes of the Late Samuel ...
An illustrated talk by Cassie Ulph of the University of Manchester for the Streatham Society on 29th April 2021The death of Hester Piozzi on 2 May 1821 marke...
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Hester Lynch Thrale, née Salusbury, est sans conteste une des femmes les plus brillantes de l’Angleterre de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Mariée à un riche brasseur dénommé Henry Thrale, cette femme, qui eut la chance de bénéficier d’une excellente éducation malgré les revers de fortune de sa famille, ne tarde pas à se faire une place de choix dans le Londres de son époque.
Hester Lynch nacque a Bodvel Hall (Caernarvonshire, Galles) in una delle più importanti famiglie di proprietari terrieri del Galles.La situazione economica della sua famiglia divenne pessima dopo il fallimento del padre, John Salusbury, a causa di alcuni disastrosi investimenti effettuati ad Halifax, in Canada; Hester pertanto sposò contro la propria volontà Henry Thrale, un ricco ...
Thrale inherited the Anchor Brewery, Southwark from his father. In 1772 a scheme for brewing beer without malt or hops put the brewery in debt by £130,000 (£13 million today). This almost bankrupted Henry Thrale. Hester Thrale raised money from her mother and other friends and he cleared the debt in nine years. Travels
