Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… and biographer of Samuel Johnson, embodies some of the contradictions of eighteenth-century sociable lives: a wealthy society lady, she went through periods of financial instability and even poverty. A central part of fashionable society, she also experienced loss and loneliness. A glittering hostess, she was ostracized by society on account of her second marriage. A writer who introduced the anecdotal biography, she was mauled by literary …
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