Piozzi H L (5 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:9781434650498.

Condition: Good. Volume 7. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN. …

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, xix, 492 pp, 8 plates. From the Introduction: "Of the many women who have made a place for themselves in English literary history perhaps none has been more often the subject of controversy than Hester Lynch Piozzi, the friend of Dr. Johnson, the rival of Boswell, the sprightly, irrepressible Mistress of Streatham. In her own time she was a well-known figure in London society, with steadfast friends and a host of bitter enemies. To-day, even in the perspective of over a century, she still arouses ardent admiration or intense dislike. The late Professor Sir Walter Raleigh once remarked to Mr. A. Edward Newton, after examining some of Mrs. Piozzi's papers, 'What a dear, delightful person she was! I have always wanted to meet her'; and Mr. Newton himself declared that of all the feminine writers of English literature he would most like to have known Mrs. Piozzi.1 Yet, in contrast, the late Lord Lansdowne called her 'a woman essentially vain, vulgar, and false, intolerable as a parent and rightly kept at a distance by her offspring'. What was there about this eighteenth-century brewer's wife which even in the twentieth century can arouse such intense feeling? Why does it seem impossible to arrive at any general estimate of her character? These are some of the questions which I hope to answer in the present biography. There is one obvious reason why Mrs. Piozzi is difficult to understand. Throughout her life she was a bundle of contradictions, a chameleon changing colour with her varying surroundings. Consequently, any over-emphasis on the years just preceding her second marriage makes her appear giddy, self- centred, and unstable; yet a similar concentration on her early life with Thrale or her last years with Piozzi shows an intelligent woman, self-sacrificing, and dependable. Random excerpts from her letters are apt, therefore, to be misleading, for it is not possible to make an accurate estimate of her character simply by examining a portion of her correspondence." A little cocked, covers lightly rubbed, otherwise Good. …

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN.

Condition: Poor. Made in the course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany. Vol. II. No front cover. Back cover is marked and worn. Backstrip is marked and worn. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With almost no library markings, in poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN.…