Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… and through her literary works. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Bluestockings Commerce Friendship Italy Literature Politics Born into a Welsh family proud of its ancestry, Hester Lynch Salusbury spent most of her early … Guppy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1932), p. 91 ff. The next year would have seen them travel as far as Italy, but the death of their eldest boy, Henry, cruelly upset their plans. An exacting mother, Hester spent years trying … circles on account of her marriage to a Catholic music teacher, she defiantly embarked on a three years’ Grand Tour to Italy with him in 1784. Hester Piozzi’s social circles now changed considerably: Johnson had broken off all connections …
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