Hester thrale as a young woman
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
On their return to Britain in 1787, the Piozzis continued to be sociable, hosting dinners for their still numerous acquaintances, inviting friends first to a rented house in Hanover Square, then to Streatham, which proved to be too expensive to keep up, and finally to their newly built seat in Wales, Brynbella. Country life did not deter the Piozzis, who liked to invite friends for a game of cards after a sumptuous dinner, but to alleviate Gabriele Piozzi’s annual sufferings from gout, they also spent at least a month per year socializing at Bath. Hester’s relationship with her surviving daughters remained fraught. An inveterate enemy whenever she felt betrayed, she cut ties with most of her old friends but was never at a loss to gather new ones, Italian visitors and writers such as Samuel Rogers as well as the novelists Harriet and Sophia Lee. She formed a lifelong friendship with the great actress, Sarah Siddons, and even tried her hand at playwriting but neither of her attempts ever made it onto the stage.
To make money, she contemplated writing a novel instead, but finally settled on British Synonymy (1793), a work of direct interest to the study of eighteenth-century European sociability because Hester, in the gui
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When Hester Thrale began her tour in North Wales with the celebrated poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, Dr. Johnson, it was with the intention of taking ownership of the Bachegraig Estate which she had inherited after the death of her uncle, Sir John Salesbury. The tour was not without its ups and downs, and Johnson in particular did not entirely enjoy his time in North Wales, complaining that it afforded very little he could not have experienced elsewhere.
Hester was a Salesbury by birth, one of the most powerful and influential families in Wales, but her father was not terribly astute with money. Her marriage to the wealthy brewer, Henry Thrale allowed Hester to take her place in society, a place which a sharp wit and excellent education allowed her to take full advantage. Her friendship with Dr. Johnson resulted in letters which go somewhat to redressing the one sided view of the man gained from a reading of James Boswell's, ‘Life of Dr. Johnson’, while also painting a picture of a vibrant, intelligent and sometime caustic woman, who very much reminds one of earlier Salesburys. Johnson called her a rattlesnake, ‘for many have felt your venom, few have escaped your attractions, an
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