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Paperback Piozziana: Or, Recollections of the Late Mrs Piozzi Book

ISBN: 1108057322

ISBN13: 9781108057325

Piozziana: Or, Recollections of the Late Mrs Piozzi

Highly educated and accustomed to intellectual society, the writer and woman of letters 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. As well...

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