Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… make any demands on her husband. On marrying Henry Thrale, thus, Hester did not seem predestined to become a glittering salonnière : on the contrary, her life seemed confined and dreary, and her husband was widely known to be a womanizer … a war of words among his guests (Franklin 40). Hester revelled in her role as the fashionable hostess of a literary salon (including a lavish dinner table), vying with, and accepted by, the Bluestocking queen Elizabeth Montagu, who … 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 …
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