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From: ThralianaPiozzi's fake review of her Letters: [7 Jan. 1788 Hanover Square] I diverted my friend Mrs. Lewis while at Reading with reviewing my own book, and imitating the style of those I expect to abuse it. Here is the...
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From: The London Review and Literary Journal[In the excerpt below, the critic comments on Piozzi's Retrospection, finding fault with her grammar and her lack of a “regular series of dates.”] Cicero somewhere observes—Historia quoque modo scripta delectat,”...
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From: Prose and Poetry[In the following excerpt, Meynell remarks on Piozzi's marriages, social life, and literary style, finding that she had “all the interest belonging of right to a woman altogether of her time.”] Too much contemporary...
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From: New Rambler[(essay date 97) In the following essay, originally presented before the Johnson Society of London in 1996, Rumbold remarks on Piozzi’s recurring mention of her Italian travels in her Anecdotes of the Late Samuel...
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From: Harvard Library Bulletin[(essay date 1970) In the following essay, Spacks surveys the contents of Piozzi’s unpublished journals from the years 1810 to 1814. In Spacks’s estimation, these works illustrate the unhappiness and self-doubt that...
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From: Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (1778-1840)[In the following excerpt from a collection of her diaries and letters, Burney (Madame D'Arblay) comments on Piozzi's character and compares her to Madame de Staël Holstein.] I have lost now, just lost, my once most...
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From: an Excerpt from Six Essays on JohnsonMrs. Thrale was a lively, feather-headed lady, with a good deal of natural wit, and a perfect confidence in the exercise of it. Boswell disliked her, as his most highly-favoured competitor, but it is impossible to read...
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From: Philological Quarterly[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Rasmussen analyzes the “flammable” nature of Piozzi’s diary writing and her tumultuous friendship with Johnson, asserting that her extensive marginal writing would have been...
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From: South Central Review[(essay date spring 1987) In the following essay, Wheeler explores the association of Samuel Johnson and Warton, from their early respect and affection to the cooling off of their friendship after the publication of...
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From: an Excerpt from Autobiography, Letters, and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)I do not mean to misemploy much of your time, which I know is always passed in good works, and usefully. You have, therefore, probably not looked into Piozzi's Travels. I, who have been almost six weeks lying on a couch,...
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From: The Atlantic Monthly[In the following excerpt, the anonymous critic comments on Piozzi's character, focusing in particular on her “animated manner” and her “charm” as the mistress of Streatham Park.] Ninety years ago, one of the...
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From: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life[In the excerpt below, Roberts provides an overview of Piozzi's writings]. At an early age, Hester Salusbury had an itch for writing: It was then, too, when I was about thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen years old, that...
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From: New Republic[(essay date 14 October 2002) In the essay below, Castle presents a detailed overview of The Lives of the Muses, praising Prose's narrative skill, but questioning the ideological premise of the work.] Back when I was a...
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From: Journal of World History[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Hughes-Warrington offers an analysis of Piozzi’s Retrospection, a two-volume world history that devotes much attention to the interior lives of great historical figures....
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTwo entries recorded by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi in her diary feature words that appear earlier than the first entry in 'OED.' In page 785 of her 'Thraliana,' Piozzi mentions the 'Black Dog is upon his Back.' The...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 88, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 1818, twice widowed and near death, bluestocking Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, a writer and poet now best known for her friendship with Samuel Johnson, stumbled upon her old diary, the Thraliana. (1) She began to...
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From: Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman[In the following excerpt, McCarthy discusses Piozzi's Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. and compares the book with James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.] A transition from an author's books to his...
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From: Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theatre, 1660-1820[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Rogers examines contemporary responses to Siddons's stage presence and observes that Siddons appeared to introduce a style of female comportment that was more commanding and...
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From: Eighteenth-Century Studies[(essay date fall 2006) In the following essay, Hurley argues that the terrain of the Bluestockings extended beyond salons to provincial spas, where women could talk about "female" issues beyond marriage and family and...
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From: The Female Imagination[In the following excerpt, Spacks focuses on Piozzi's Thraliana and concludes that the work's literary merit “is its vivid revelation of a woman's psychology.”] The eleven hundred pages of text in Hester Thrale's...