Autograph letter signed from Hester Lynch Piozzi, Denbigh, to Mrs. Pennington, Bristol [manuscript], 1794 September 11.

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Autograph letter signed from Hester Lynch Piozzi, Denbigh, to Mrs. Pennington, Bristol [manuscript], 1794 September 11.

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Mrs. Piozzi comments on the increased position of terror in novels and declares that Ann Radcliffe "plays that game best." She adds, however, Radcliffe's "tricks used to fright Mrs. Siddons and me very much, but when somebody said her book was like Macbeth, 'Ay,' replied H:L:P, 'about as like as Peppermint Water is to good French Brandy.'" Much of the letter consists of Mrs. Piozzi's parody of Newbery's "Chapter of Kings." Piozzi's verse about French revolutionaries entitled "Chapter of King-killers" begins "When France mad for Freedom her King control'd."

2 leaves ; 30 x 24 cm.

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Pennington, Penelope

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Penelope Pennington was a friend and correspondent of Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Mrs. Siddons, and Anna Seward. From the guide to the Penelope Pennington Collection, 1798-1827, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) Penelope Pennington, née Weston (1757-1827), wife of William Pennington, Master of Ceremonies for the Bristol Hotwells. From the guide to the Penelope Pennington manuscript material : 12 items, 1813-1814, (The Ne...

Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823

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English gothic novelist. From the description of Autograph letter in the third person : [n.p.], to Mr. [William Eusebius?] Andrews, 1822 Feb. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872138 ...

Newbery, John, 1713-1767

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Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821

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Hester Lynch Thrale (born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage, Hester Lynch Piozzi ) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century life. From the description of Autograph poem, unsigned, an adaptation of Francis Fawkes's "An Autumnal Ode, " no date [paper watermarked 1813]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864928 From the description of...