Thrale history
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| 1 |  | Book: "Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson" Hester Lynch Thrale. Thraliana. 26 March 1786. Her first book - with her personal recollections of the late Samuel Johnson. |
Owner of original: 26 March 1786 |
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| 2 |  | Book: "Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. 25 March 1786. |
Date: 25 Mar 1786 |
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| 3 | | Book: "Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. March 1788. |
Date: Mar 1788 |
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| 4 | | Book: "Lydford Redivivus, or A Grandame’s Garrulity" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. 1815. Hester’s final work, completed in 1815 but never published, was a whimsical manuscript compiling hundreds of personal names—both British and foreign—together with their supposed origins, meanings, and historical anecdotes, all delivered in the chatty, digressive style of an affectionate grandmother entertaining her grandchildren. |
Date: 1815 |
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| 5 | | Book: "Observations and reflections made in the course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. June 1789. |
Date: Jun 1789 |
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| 6 | | Book: "Retrospection" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. 1801. |
Date: 1801 |
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| 7 | | Book: "The British Synonymy, or an Attempt to Regulate the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. April 1794. A lively two-volume guide to choosing exact and elegant words in polite discourse, it blends scholarship with anecdote and was dedicated to Dr Johnson’s memory. |
Date: Apr 1794 |
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| 8 |  | Lyrics Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury and Herbert Lawrence. Thraliana. 1777-8. Her account of:
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Date: Bet 1777 and 1778 |
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| 9 |  | Portrait: Bob Cleeve, aged 5 years Charles THRALE. Sep 1947. |
Owner of original: Mrs Tracy Atkinson Date: Sep 1947 |
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| 10 | | Portrait: David Henry Thrale Elise Thrale. 2015. (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.) |
Owner of original: David Thrale Date: 2015 9.784851250750606, 126.71874999999999 |
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| 11 | | Prologue: "Occasional Prologue" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. August 1788. Hester and her husband Gabriel Piozzi collaborated on an Occasional Prologue for the town’s amateur theatre. |
Date: Aug 1788 |
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| 12 | | Quotation: "Busy people" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. | ||
| 13 | | Quote: "Business Women" Hester Lynch Thrale. Letter to James Boswell. 10 May 1783. |
Date: 10 May 1783 |
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| 14 | | Unpublished manuscript: "The Children's Book" Hester Thrale compiled an unpublished manuscript titled *The Children's Book* (also known as *The Children’s Book, or Family Book*) for her children between approximately 1767 and 1784. The original manuscript is preserved at Harvard University’s Houghton Library. |
Owner of original: Houghton Library, Harvard University Date: BET 1767 AND 1784 |
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| 15 | | Verses: "A Beard" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 21 May 1787. |
Date: 21 May 1787 |
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| 16 | | Verses: "A fable to Miss Thrale" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 20 April 1778. |
Date: 20 Apr 1778 |
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| 17 | | Verses: "A gallows make to hang them" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. October to November 1794. |
Date: BET Oct 1794 TO Nov 1794 |
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| 18 | | Verses: "A Lady on April Fool Day" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1 April 1758. She wrote these verses in iambic tetrameter on 1 April 1758 at Streatham Park as a lighthearted and playful piece which pokes fun at the tradition of April Fool's Day and the gullible people who are easily fooled. |
Date: 1 Apr 1758 |
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| 19 | | Verses: "A little Son and Heir" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 15 November 1804. |
Date: 15 Nov 1804 |
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| 20 | | Verses: "A Tale for the Times" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. December 1777. |
Date: Dec 1777 |
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| 21 | | Verses: "A Venetian Partenza imitated" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 17 May 1781. |
Date: 17 May 1781 |
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| 22 | | Verses: "Address to British women" After 1801, Hester Lynch Piozzi’s only known publication was this anonymous anti-Napoleonic broadside. In this text, England, imagined as an old woman, calls on her daughters not to faint or fall into fits in the face of French enemies but to remain strong and calm. Attributed to Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury by William McCarthy (The Writings of Hester Lynch Piozzi: A Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography 45.2 (1988): 134.). Reprinted (but not attributed) in F. J. Klingberg and S. B. Hustvedt, ed., The Warning Drum: The British Home Front Faces Napoleon. Broadsides of 1803. Berkeley: 1944. |
Date: 1803 |
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| 23 | | Verses: "Against drinking" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 3 June 1781. |
Date: 3 Jun 1781 |
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| 24 | | Verses: "An evening with Molly Aston" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Gent Magazine viii. 211 & Thraliana. 5 July 1782. |
Date: 5 Jul 1782 |
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| 25 | | Verses: "An ode to society" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 27 Jun 1786. |
Date: 27 Jun 1786 |
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| 26 | | Verses: "Another Stroke at Martial" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Published in the Public Advertiser. 16 March 1779. |
Date: 16 Mar 1779 |
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| 27 | | Verses: "Bathing" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 10 Feb 1779. |
Date: 10 Feb 1779 |
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| 28 | | Verses: "Calais and Dover" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 21 May 1787. |
Date: 21 May 1787 |
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| 29 | | Verses: "Causes and connections of Dreams" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 3 January 1778 (written December 1762). |
Date: Dec 1762 |
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| 30 | | Verses: "Charade" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 11 May 1806. |
Date: 11 May 1806 |
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| 31 | | Verses: "Convolvulus" Sophia Thrale née Salusbury, aged 9. Thraliana. 6 August 1780. |
Date: 6 Aug 1780 |
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| 32 | | Verses: "D'un amato & fido Cuore" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1787. Hester's alternative lyrics to Sacchini’s Song of Torna pure al carobene. The poem is about the pain of being separated from a loved one. The speaker describes how her heart “languishes” and “palpitates” in the absence of her beloved. She compares the pain to “affanno” (shortness of breath) and “fatica” (fatigue). The only thing that can soothe her pain is the thought of being reunited with her beloved. |
Owner of original: 1787 |
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| 33 | | Verses: "Dear Mr Woodfall" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1760. |
Date: 20 Jan 1780 |
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| 34 | | Verses: "Doctor Johnson's Epigram" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. December 1777 (written 1768). |
Date: 1768 |
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| 35 | | Verses: "Dover" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 8 May 1783. |
Date: 8 May 1783 |
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| 36 | | Verses: "Egypt" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 25 July 1801. |
Date: 25 Jul 1801 |
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| 37 | | Verses: "Epilogue from The Witlings" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. May 1778. A satirical play about contemporary literary and intellectual circles that was initially titled Epilogue to Manuel but was renamed The Regent and then The Witlings. |
Date: May 1778 |
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| 38 | | Verses: "Epitaph on pretty Miss Adams" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 25 June 1804. |
Date: 25 Jun 1804 |
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| 39 | | Verses: "Eruption of Mount Vesuvius" by Hester Lynch Thrale Written by Hester Lynch Thrale in Naples, Italy February 1786. Thraliana entry dated 30 June 1786. |
Date: Feb 1786 40.83588459999996, 14.2487679 |
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| 40 | | Verses: "Fall of the Great Ash Tree" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1760 verses about the fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offley Park. |
Owner of original: 1760 |
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| 41 | | Verses: "First verses" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. Hester's account of her daughter, Queeney's first verses aged 12, with Hester's first verses at the same age. | ||
| 42 | | Verses: "Forrester; or the old Hunter's Petition for Life" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1758. Written aged 13, for her uncle, Sir Thomas Salusbury. |
Date: 1758 |
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| 43 | | Verses: "Friends and Enemies" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 17 June 1804. Hester wrote a prologue for her friend Sir Lumley Skeffington for his book Friends and Enemies. |
Date: 17 Jun 1804 |
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| 44 | | Verses: "Greenway's Grotto" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 28 June 1780. |
Date: 28 Jun 1780 |
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| 45 | | Verses: "Hagley" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. August to September 1777. |
Date: 1776 |
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| 46 | | Verses: "Harriot" Sophia Thrale née Salusbury about her younger sister Henrietta Sophia Thrale. Thraliana. | ||
| 47 | | Verses: "Harrow on the Hill" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. March - April 1778. |
Date: BET Mar 1778 and Apr 1778 |
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| 48 | | Verses: "Hester Thrale's 35th birthday" Dr. Samuel Johnson on the occasion of the thirty-fifth birthday of Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury and recorded in Thraliana December 1777. |
Owner of original: 16 Jan 1776 |
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| 49 | | Verses: "House of smoke" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 15 November 1804. |
Date: 15 Nov 1804 |
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| 50 | | Verses: "Imagination's search after happiness" Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. December 1778. |
Date: Dec 1778 |