Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… thus, Hester did not seem predestined to become a glittering salonnière : on the contrary, her life seemed confined and dreary, and her husband was widely known to be a womanizer even then – he even let himself be seen at the theatre in … of their eldest boy, Henry, cruelly upset their plans. An exacting mother, Hester spent years trying to teach her children only to see them die one after other: of fourteen children, only four would survive. As usual, she suppressed her … or had already achieved eminence, such as Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, or Dr Charles Burney, who was engaged as Queenie’s music tutor but quickly gained a place at the famous dinner table. In 1777, Hester, …
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