Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… Revolution and the threat of a Napoleonic invasion. To her contemporaries, Hester Thrale Piozzi was an intelligent, charming, lively, and witty hostess, but this display of brilliancy came at a cost, or so she maintained in 1797 in a …
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