Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… on this occasion exasperated her. However, a trip to France the next year was quite a success, and introduced her to the French salonnière, Mme du Boccage, and her circle, as well as to French theatre and French art (Franklin 80-82). 5 4 . For her connections with Elizabeth Montagu, see McCarthy, op. cit., … and the 1790s and early 1800s would see her an active pamphleteer in the cause of the British Crown against the French Revolution and the threat of a Napoleonic invasion. To her contemporaries, Hester Thrale Piozzi was an intelligent, …
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