Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (née Salusbury; 27 January 1741 or 16 January 1740 – 2 May 1821) was a Welsh writer and socialite who was an important source...

debt by £130,000 (£13 million today). This almost bankrupted Henry Thrale. Hester Thrale raised money from her mother and other friends and he cleared the...

Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, born Hester Maria Thrale (17 September 1764 – 31 March 1857), was a British literary correspondent and intellectual...

British politician Hester Thrale (1741–1821), Welsh-born diarist, author, and patron of the arts This page lists people with the surname Thrale. If an internal...

with the Thrales for 17 years until Henry's death in 1781, sometimes staying in rooms at Thrale's Anchor Brewery in Southwark. Hester Thrale's documentation...

widely acknowledged: figures such as Dr Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Hester Lynch Thrale, David Garrick and other members of the Blue Stockings Society to...

Thraliana was a diary kept by Hester Thrale and is part of the genre known as table talk. Although the work began as Thrale's diary focused on her experience...

Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life by Hester Thrale, also known as Hester Lynch Piozzi, was first published 26 March 1786. It was based...

and traveler Hester Thrale (1741–1821), British diarist, author, and patron of the arts Hester van Eeghen (1958–2021), Dutch designer Hester Veltman-Kamp...

literary and cultural figures around the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale and his wife Hester Thrale who assembled at his country retreat Streatham Park and were...

1813, Morning Herald of London. A manuscript in the hand of Hester Thrale (i.e., Hester Lynch Piozzi) in Harvard's library hints that she may be the...

painting and say that he would not be "Blinking Sam", as quoted in Hester Thrale's Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson. The artwork has since been noted...

Garrick John Hawkins Arthur Murphy Elizabeth Johnson (wife) Henry Thrale Hester Thrale Anna Williams Hodge Essays and periodicals Birmingham Journal The...

"outer", "noble" and "fake", "proper" and "parasitical". British diarist Hester Thrale, in her book Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey...

built by the brewer Ralph Thrale. Streatham Park later passed to Ralph's son Henry Thrale, who with his wife, Hester Thrale, entertained many of the leading...

ISBN 0-06-012496-2. Piozzi, Hester (1951), Balderson, Katharine (ed.), Thraliana: The Diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi) 1776–1809...

of Bath Clara Reeve Sarah Scott Sir Joshua Reynolds Catherine Talbot Hester Thrale Elizabeth Vesey Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford Anna Williams Mary...

Montaigne Oscar Wilde Pierre de Fermat Samuel T. Coleridge Sylvia Plath Hester Thrale Piozzi Voltaire Annotation, often in the form of a margin note but written...

concerns the last years of Samuel Johnson and his relationship between Hester Thrale and her daughter 'Queeney'. The bulk of the novel is set between 1765...

contemporaries and biographers such as his ex-pupil David Garrick, Hester Thrale and Thomas B. Macaulay: the last described her as "a short, fat, coarse...

the historic Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, and in Queeney's mother the reader will recognise the historic Hester Thrale. This section...

in commenting on Boswell's excessive note-taking, playfully wrote to Hester Thrale, "One would think the man had been hired to spy upon me". On 6 August...

Samuel Johnson as seen through the eyes of Queeney Thrale, eldest daughter of Henry and Hester Thrale. The Observer referred to it as a "...highly intelligent...

Streatham Park later passed to Ralph's son Henry Thrale, who with his wife Hester Thrale entertained many of the leading literary and artistic characters of...

Moonkat Holy Roman Empire King Prawn Whispering Bob Four Storeys Dolly Overground Hester Thrale Vade Mecum Murry the Hump Black Candy Winnebago Deal...

American Revolutionary War general, traitor (d. 1801) January 27 – Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821) February 7 – Henry Fuseli, Swiss painter and...

the soirée and the choice of guests. Famous soirée hostesses include Hester Thrale. A dance is a social gathering at which the guests dance. It may be...

for the Universal Visiter as an "act of charity" to the ailing Smart. Hester Thrale Piozzi, in her British Synonymy Book 2, did not joke about Johnson's...

through Scotland, Johnson "exhibited prejudice and a narrow nationalism". Hester Thrale, in summarising Johnson's nationalistic views and his anti-Scottish...

introduces the character of Figaro. October 19 – Samuel Johnson, Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, visiting Paris, watch King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie...