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Hester Lynch Piozzi

  

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Hester Lynch Piozzi : Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson

I wanted to have sent you a translation of the Epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's, and inserted in Piozzi's anecdotes - but my father has lent, & lost (often synomymous terms) his copy of that work, & I cannot immediately think of anybody to apply to. There are no bookish people here - on the contrary, they seem to me to look with an evil eye on every reader of every production save a newspaper.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

  

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of...

'The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christian charity...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

  

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D

"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time (1815), the Johnson Anecdotes and Letters, and her own Observations and Retrospection."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi      Print: Book

  

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Retrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and their Consequences, which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years have Presented to the View of Mankind

"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time (1815), the Johnson Anecdotes and Letters, and her own Observations and Retrospection."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi      Print: Book

  

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Observations

"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time (1815), the Johnson Anecdotes and Letters, and her own Observations and Retrospection."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi      Print: Book

  

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson

'So much for Mrs Piozzi. I had some thoughts of writing the whole of my letter in her stile [sic], but I beleive [sic] I shall not.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

  

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Observations and Reflections made in the course of a journey through FRance, Italy and Germany

'So you are in correspondence with Mrs piozzi? Enviable Mortal! - Do you know I am, at this present writing, stark staring mad for love [of] her. I have been reading her Journey through France and Italy, and nothing that I ever luxuriously licked my lips over, ever delighted me half so much. The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christian charity for the errors of mankind - breathing such candour, chearfulness and good nature, that I quite adore her. She uses various quaint phrazes, very comical and expressive; but somewhat odd "somehow" (as she says) till one gets accustomed to her style. The original poetry thinly scattered through the work, I do not admire. But a woman cannot have every excellence of heart and genius. She has enough to satisfy a more fastidious spirit than mine'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

  

Hester Lynch Piozzi (Thrale) : Anecdotes of the Late Doctor Johnson

Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- such is the wreckage dealt by 4 days of conversation [...] I told Lytton I should try to write down his talk -- which sprang from a conversation about Boswell [...] Lytton had of course read Mrs Thrale [...] One night he gave us a complete account of the prison system, based on reports which he has been reading -- thoroughly, with mastery, & a kind of political ability which impresses me.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey      Print: Book

  

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