Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… ca. 1785-86. Abstract Often considered a contradictory character herself, Hester Thrale Piozzi, now best remembered as a Bluestocking hostess and biographer of Samuel Johnson, embodies some of the contradictions of eighteenth-century sociable … by means of her social gatherings 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 … role as the fashionable hostess of a literary salon (including a lavish dinner table), vying with, and accepted by, the Bluestocking queen Elizabeth Montagu , who frequently visited at Streatham, and who was vice versa visited by the Thrales …
Bluestockings | Commerce | Friendship | Italy | Literature | Politics
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