Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… lives: a wealthy society lady, she went through periods of financial instability and even poverty. A central part of fashionable society, she also experienced loss and loneliness. A glittering hostess, she was ostracized by society on … Globe, or so Hester claimed – now alluring some well-known visitors into an area previously considered out of bounds to fashionable society ( Autobiography, vol.II, 33). Hester also came to know commercial sociability through her growing … and Henry Thrale happy to encourage a war of words among his guests (Franklin 40). Hester revelled in her role as the fashionable hostess of a literary salon (including a lavish dinner table), vying with, and accepted by, the Bluestocking …
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