Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi / Michael John Franklin.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 23, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- 1 Hester Lynch Salusbury: 'a thousand pretty Tricks, [...] a Thousand pretty Stories and ... a Thousand pretty Verses' -- 2 The Two Hesters 'have murder'd Peace & Happiness at Home' -- 3 The Arrivals of Queeney and the Great Cham -- 4 Hester Brewster, or, 'Women have a manifest Advantage over Men in the doing Business' -- 5 'Like a Rocket She rises, and leaves us to Stare' -- 6 'To revise my past Life, & resolve upon a new one'

7 'To hie home and dye like a Hare upon the old Farm, near the Place I was kindled at' -- 8 'Each bold Cambrio Briton's a Stranger to Fear' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Back Cover

This book considers Hester Lynch Piozzi as a Welsh writer of Wales, and documents the importance of her decision to build the beautiful Brynbella in north Wales. The Celtic aspects of her early poetry and her later prose works are considered in detail.

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