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The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 — John Shaqi

The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821Piozzi, Hester Lynch

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The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821

Name: The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821
Author: Piozzi, Hester Lynch

Piozzi, Hester Lynch

Authors, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence; England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Pennington, Penelope -- Correspondence; Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821 -- Correspondence

Introductory--Mrs. Piozzi and the blue-stockings--Penelope
    Weston--The Salusbury family--Early years and
    education--Marriage to Thrale, 1763--Widowhood--Marriage to
    Piozzi, 1784--Foreign travel--Return to England, 1788            1


                              CHAPTER II

    The Piozzis in Hanover Square--Scotch tour, 1789--Visit to
    Wales--Return to Streatham Park, 1790--Harriet Lee's
    romance--Nuneham and Mrs. Siddons, 1791--French
    Revolution--Cecilia's admirers--Apprehensions for Cecilia--The
    September massacres--Miss Weston's engagement                   18


                             CHAPTER III

    Miss Weston marries Wm. Pennington, 1792--Execution of
    Louis XVI--Reconciliation of Mrs. Piozzi and her daughters,
    1793--Irish Rebellion--_British Synonymy_--Fleming's
    prophecies--Cecilia's flirtations--Residence at Denbigh,
    1794--Building of Brynbella                                     73


                              CHAPTER IV

    Cecilia's engagement and marriage to Mostyn, 1795--Her
    dangerous illness--Friction with the Mostyns--Disturbances
    in Italy and Ireland--Death of Maria Siddons--Visit
    to Bath, 1798                                                  121

                              CHAPTER V

    Adoption of John Salusbury Piozzi--The _Canterbury Tales_--Bath
    Riots, 1800--Chancery suit with Miss Thrale--Bach-y-graig
    restored--_Retrospection_ published, 1801--The Blagdon
    controversy--Political epigram                                 169

                              CHAPTER VI

    Attacks by reviewers--The Peace, 1801--Visit to London--South
    Wales--Mrs. Pennington's troubles--Bath again--Breach
    with Mrs. Pennington, 1804                                     218

                             CHAPTER VII

    Renewal of friendship, 1819--Weston-super-Mare--W. A.
    Conway--Birthday fête, 1820--Conway's love affair--Penzance--The
    Queen's trial--More law--Land's End--Return to Clifton
    and death, 1821--Mrs. Pennington's obituary notice--Her
    relations with the daughters and the executors--Epitaph        270




                        LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


    MRS. PIOZZI                        (_Photogravure_) _Frontispiece_
        _By_ Meyer, _after_ Jackson, 1811, _from the Collection of_
           A. M. Broadley, Esq.

                                                          TO FACE PAGE
    CATHERINE OF BERAIN                                              7
        _By_ W. Bond, _after_ J. Allen, 1798.

    SIR RICHARD CLOUGH                                               8
        _By_ Basire, _after_ M. Griffith.

    DR. JOHNSON'S BIOGRAPHERS (MRS. PIOZZI, CAREY?, AND BOSWELL)    16
        _From a caricature_, 1786, _in the Collection of_ A. M.
           Broadley, Esq.

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