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30 de abr. de 2024 · Hester Lynch Piozzi (born Jan. 27, 1740, Bodvel, Carnarvonshire, Wales—died May 2, 1821, Clifton, Bristol, Eng.) was an English writer and friend of Samuel Johnson. In 1763 she married a wealthy brewer named Henry Thrale.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 de may. de 2024 · Siguiendo el trabajo sobre este tema de Norma Clarke, Elizabeth Eger y otras, (…) se centra principalmente en las vidas de Hester Thrale, Elizabeth Montagu, Ann Yearsley y Catharine Macaulay, pero también considera a Hannah More, Elizabeth Carter, Sarah Scott ( la hermana menor de Elizabeth Montagu) y otras.
Hace 2 días · Hester Thrale Piozzi claimed, in a discussion on Smart's mental state, that Johnson was her "friend who feared an apple should intoxicate him". To her, what separated Johnson from others who were placed in asylums for madness—like Christopher Smart—was his ability to keep his concerns and emotions to himself.
- 13 December 1784 (aged 75), London, England
- Pembroke College, Oxford
- English, Latin
- Tory
Hace 2 días · This is Hester Thrale with her daughter painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in about 1777. Fifty years before Mrs Piozzi came to stay here, Penzance was a wild west town. West Cornwall was often referred to as ‘West Barbary’ to indicate how primitive it was thought to be.
Hace 6 días · Woven into Molly's story are the writers - from Celia Fiennes to Hester Thrale to George Eliot - who are transfixed by her myth and who, over three centuries, come together to solve the mystery of her life. The novel remakes the eighteenth-century Heroical novel and challenges women's writing and women's roles throughout history.
29 de abr. de 2024 · For 250 years, scholarship on the eighteenth-century lexicographer, diarist, and biographer Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale) has been desultory at best and at worst non-existent. Scholars who first undertook to analyze her life or edit her works were generally interested only in her relations with Samuel Johnson and James Boswell.
5 de may. de 2024 · Across an interlinked series of biographical case studies, Gibson attempts to cast women writers ranging from Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More to Frances Burney and Hester Thrale Piozzi as proto-feminists who ‘laid the foundations for a whole new worldview’.
