Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… came to consider him ‘a prodigious Favourite’ ( Thraliana I, 452). Within months, Piozzi would sing Italian songs of love to her which she joyously translated into English. Henry Thrale meanwhile deteriorated rapidly: suffering a series … Samuel Johnson, almost prevented their union. Having married for convenience once, Hester now decided to marry for love and to pay the social price for her perceived mésalliance exacted: ostracized by her old circles on account of her …
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