Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… family history, part diary, a depository of mostly unpublished poetry written by herself or picked up from friends and acquaintances – all in all, a medley from which many insights into eighteenth-century sociable practices can be gleaned. … 618. On their return to Britain in 1787, the Piozzis continued to be sociable, hosting dinners for their still numerous acquaintances, inviting friends first to a rented house in Hanover Square, then to Streatham, which proved to be too … undertaken repeatedly for her first husband: ‘Life is a Toil, & Visitants increase it -- a London Life, keeping up one’s Acquaintance as ‘tis called, I consider as setting out upon a regular Canvass:-- The fatigue is the same, & the Pleasure …
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