Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale): With Notes and an Introductory Account of Her Life and WritingsCambridge University Press, 2013 M05 6 - 494 pages 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, memoirs, poetry and travel diaries, she was one of the first women to produce works on philology and history. Edited by the essayist Abraham Hayward (1801-84) and incorporating correspondence and other writings, this two-volume work offers a valuable insight into the life of an important woman of letters and how she was perceived by contemporaries and posterity. Reissued here is the enlarged second edition of 1861. Volume 2 presents her autobiographical writings together with marginalia, letters and poetry. |
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Contents
Extracts from Conway MS | 30 |
Thrales Illness | 37 |
Dr Collier | 43 |
First Acquaintanoe with Piozzi | 49 |
Foreign Tour | 56 |
Residence in Italy | 63 |
Minor Marginal Notes on the Two Volumes of Printed | 75 |
Marginal Notes on Wraxalls Historical Memoirs | 89 |
Asheri | 181 |
Character of Thrale | 188 |
A Frightful Story | 194 |
Ode to Society | 203 |
Occasional Verses | 210 |
Letters to the Rev Daniel Lysons and S Lysons Esq | 217 |
Letters to Dr Robert Gray | 248 |
Miss Wynnes Oommonplace Book | 276 |
Marginal Notes on Boswells Life of Johnson | 123 |
Marginal Notes on Johnsons Lives of the Poets | 132 |
The Three Warnings | 165 |
Miscellaneous Letters principally to Sir James Fellowes | 285 |
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