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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
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ISBN: 128265067X 9786612650673 1443818917 9781443818919 9781443818728 1443818720 6612650672 Year: 2010 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars

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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...


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Taking travel home : the souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-1830
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ISBN: 1526169932 1526155265 1526155281 Year: 2022 Publisher: Manchester, England : Manchester University Press,

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This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects.


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The True Story of the So-Called Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi
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ISBN: 0674186613 0674181581 Year: 1970 Publisher: HUP

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