Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman by William McCarthy

Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman

William McCarthy

322 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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Much has been written about Thrale, friend and hostess of Samuel Johnson, but this is the first study to focus on Piozzi as the writer. In his narrative of her life, McCarthy draws on a large body of published and unpublished sources to map Piozzi...

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