… herself remains in the background and rarely gives a voice to her emotions, she appears as an astute chronicler, who met Napoleon, was overwhelmed by Germaine de Staël , spoke to the Duke of Wellington, befriended William Makepeace Thackeray, …
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… would see her an active pamphleteer in the cause of the British Crown against the French Revolution and the threat of a Napoleonic invasion. To her contemporaries, Hester Thrale Piozzi was an intelligent, charming, lively, and witty hostess, …