Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… 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, an ardent Tory, was introduced at Court. A year later, she began to patronize Dr Burney’s daughter, the young Frances Burney, whose first novel, Evelina , had made such a splash. Frances, an inveterate diarist, would chronicle many of the …
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