Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… on the couple that they had lacked before, and they were accepted into polite society, with even their Southwark home – partly built on the ruins of Shakespeare’s Globe, or so Hester claimed – now alluring some well-known … had advised and in which he supported her, and by canvassing for her husband’s seat as a Member of Parliament for Southwark (Franklin 43, 63). 3 . See also Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), in ed. A Hayward, 2 vols (London: Longman, Green, and Roberts: 1861), vol.2, p. 23. Gradually, the Thrales developed a working …
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