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Author Franklin, Michael J., 1949- author.

Title Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi / Michael John Franklin.

Publication Info. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Writer of Wales
Writer of Wales.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 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
Summary 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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Subject Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
Authors, English.
Chronological Term 18th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Franklin, Michael J., 1949- Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, c2020 216 pages Writers of Wales. 9781786835406
ISBN 9781786835413 (electronic book)
178683541X (electronic book)
1786835428 (electronic book)
9781786835420 (electronic book)
9781786835406
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