Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale) Volume 1

Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale)With Notes and an Introductory Account of her Life and Writings\nAuthor(s): Hester Lynch Piozzi, Abraham Hayward\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108059695, 978-1108059695\nSynopsis\nHighly educated and accustomed to intellectual society, the writer Hester Lynch Piozzi [tel] 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 [tel] and incorporating correspondence and other writings.