Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… 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, …
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