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D'Ezio, Marianna.

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi : a taste for eccentricity / by Marianna D'Ezio. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010. - 1 online resource (ix, 271 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-271).

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHRONOLOGY; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Scholars and readers who are interested in eighteenth-century British literature are surely familiar Other Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi in the light she came to be known in her lifetime and after: first, as the "formidable hostess" of Streatham House, South London, and then as an outcast from respectable eighteenth-century society after she had married the Italian piano teacher of her daughter. As a writer, her importance has long been that of a footnote to Samuel Johnson and as a consequence, s ...


English.

ISBN: 9781443818919 (electronic bk.) 1443818917 (electronic bk.) (hbk.) (hbk.) 9786612650673 6612650672

Standard No.: 9786612650673

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LCCN:

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB6F5789 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 017818581 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Thrale-Salisbury, Hester L.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1700-1799

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Authors, English--18th century--Biography.
Écrivains anglais--18e siècle--Biographies.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Literature & literary studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain.
Authors, English.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: PR3619.P5 / Z66 2010eb

Dewey Class. No.: 941.07092