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Piozzi, Hester

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A female friend of Johnson under the name of Mrs. Thrale, after her first husband, a brewer in Southwark, whose home for her sake was the rendezvous of all the literary celebrities of the period; married afterwards, to Johnson's disgust, an Italian music-master, lived with him at Florence, and returned at his death to Clifton, where she died; left "Anecdotes of Johnson" and "Letters"; was authoress of "The Three Warnings" (1741-1821).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Piozzi, Hester'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/piozzi-hester.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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