Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… social circles: literary, commercial, and familial. It remained unpublished during her lifetime. 7 In 1776, Henry Thrale presented his wife with six handsome blank quarto volumes, the Thraliana , in which Hester began to jot down her own … snippets concerning Samuel Johnson, and Hester characteristically begins 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 …
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