Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… death of their eldest boy, Henry, cruelly upset their plans. An exacting mother, Hester spent years trying to teach her children only to see them die one after other: of fourteen children, only four would survive. As usual, she suppressed her grief, and tried to regain her health by sociable visits … by highlighting her own role in Thraliana ’s presentation of Johnson: unlike other literary women, Hester had young children, a fact that posed both practical problems and anxieties about the proper role of a mother, but also an excuse …
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