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Hester Lynch Thrale, née Hester Lynch Salusbury, (January 16, 1741 – May 2, 1821) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts, and a friend and biographer of Dr. Johnson. She is often known by her second married name, Hester Lynch Piozzi .
This is the first biography to foreground the importance of Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Welsh heritage throughout her long life. As one anonymous reader put it, ‘Few eighteenth-century Welsh writers long resident in England continued to identify as strongly with their homeland.’. Born in an obscure plwyf in Caernarvonshire the salonnière of ...
Gabriel Piozzi was an Italian singer and music instructor. After Henry Thrale’s death, Hester Thrale married him. At this point in Thraliana, though, he added a footnote, “He is amazingly like my Father.”. Hester. Hester Maria Thrale was the eldest of Hester Thrale’s daughters; she was known by the nickname Queeney. Convolvulus.
30 de nov. de 2008 · Hester Thrale, the subject of a biography just published in Britain—“Hester,” by Ian McIntyre (Constable; £25)—is one of the most appealing people of the late eighteenth century, and part ...
Quattro settembre 1874: Hester Linch, a 43 anni, vedova da appena un anno di Henry Thrale, ricco industriale con cui aveva generato ben dodici figli, parte con il nuovo marito, Gabriele Maria Piozzi, per il Grand Tour d’Italia. Lei stessa così scrive: «Parto per il più bel paese del mondo in compagnia del miglior uomo….
21 de fev. de 2017 · Horatio Nelson was in Bath during 1780-81, when he was only Captain Nelson, and was suffering with a fever or tropical disease (possibly malaria) but by the August of 1781 he had recovered and was appointed Captain of the Albermarle. After the departure of Dr Woodward, perhaps the most famous occupant of No.8 Gay Street, Hester Thrale, took up ...
This is the biography of Hester Thrale, nee Salusbury. Relying heavily on over thirty years of her own writings known charmingly as Thraliana, Hester paints a picture of an extraordinary and idiosyncratic lady. Although Hester was made famous by her relationship with Dr Johnson, Ian McIntyre ensures that she steps out from his shadow and […]
