Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… p. 281. 2 . For her education and early poetry, see also William McCarthy, Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), ch. 1. While Hester remained a lifelong … a glittering salonnière : on the contrary, her life seemed confined and dreary, and her husband was widely known to be a womanizer even then – he even let himself be seen at the theatre in company of his illustrious mistress, Kitty Page, … genteel use of language, also including less than subtle hints concerning the author’s political leanings. A proud Welshwoman, Hester nonetheless adopted the stance of an English patriot, and the 1790s and early 1800s would see her an active …
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