Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… 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’, depicting in this piece three different social circles: literary, commercial, and familial. It … tutoring, caressing, or what is still more useful, for having one’s Children about one’ ( Thraliana I, 158). 7 . Three Dialogues on the Death of Hester Lynch Thrale: From the hitherto Unpublished Original Manuscript now in the Possession of …
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