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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Friends, Associates	Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan	She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in...
Friends, Associates	Anne Hunter	Among Anne's personal friends and guests at her gatherings were Elizabeth Carter , Mary Delany , Elizabeth Montagu , Hester Thrale , her niece by marriage Joanna Baillie (whom she first met when Baillie came...
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	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...
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	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, 1990. 255-7
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...
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, 1952. 60 The king and queen were remarkably attentive to her in her widowhood. Prominent...
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, 1958. 106-7
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 ,...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Montagu	The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter (the most intellectually...
Friends, Associates	Samuel Johnson	Boswell's is Johnson's most famous friendship, but his women friends were immensely important to him. Carter and Lennox were joined by Hester Thrale (though Johnson always reckoned her husband, Henry Thrale , if anything the...
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...
Friends, Associates	Harriet Lee	Hester Lynch Piozzi became a particularly close friend of HL within a year of their first meeting. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii. xxxii-xxxiii Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates	Susannah Dobson	Rather like her friend Lennox, Dobson had difficulty making her way in literary London society. She got off on the wrong foot with Frances Burney in 1780 by spreading word of the authorship of Evelina...

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