… occasional trips to London, where they moved in illustrious circles, including William Hogarth, and to expand Hester’s education to include Latin, Italian and even Spanish. Hester’s own ingenuity saw some of her early poems published in … 1776-1809, in ed. Katharine C. Balderston, 2 vols (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2nd ed., 1951), vol.1, p. 281. 2 . For her education and early poetry, see also William McCarthy, Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman (Chapel Hill …