Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale) 2 Volume Set: With Notes and an Introductory Account of Her Life and Writings

by Hester Lynch Piozzi and A Hayward

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Highly educated and accustomed to intellectual society, the writer Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) became a close friend of Samuel Johnson through her first husband, the brewer Henry Thrale. Her second marriage, to the Italian musician Gabriel Mario Piozzi in 1784, estranged her from Johnson, but following his death she published her groundbreaking Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, anticipating Boswell's biography. In addition to publishing essays,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1108059716

ISBN13:9781108059718

Release Date:May 2013

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:888 Pages

Weight:2.35 lbs.

Dimensions:2.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"

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