Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… Streatham’s ‘domestic’ sociability – that is, at home with numerous guests – suited both husband and wife. They relished conversations that were less polite perhaps than in other circles, but no less learned, rousing both in different ways whenever there was a chance of ‘combative conversation’, with Hester enjoying a voluble, sparkling lead, and Henry Thrale happy to encourage a war of words among … from writing down Johnson’s memorable sayings, she composed impromptu and occasional verse, and envisioned her friends’ conversations concerning her own death in three dialogues modelled on the then fashionable ‘Dialogues of the Dead’, …
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