Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… ‘Hester Lynch Piozzi’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 4942, ca. 1785-86. Abstract Often considered a contradictory character herself, Hester Thrale Piozzi, now best remembered as a Bluestocking hostess and biographer of Samuel … was engaged as Queenie’s music tutor but quickly gained a place at the famous dinner table. In 1777, Hester, an ardent Tory, was introduced at Court. A year later, she began to patronize Dr Burney’s daughter, the young Frances Burney , … a collection of anecdotes and observations, gossip and stories, historical and etymological speculations, part family history, part diary, a depository of mostly unpublished poetry written by herself or picked up from friends and …
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