Document Type
Annotated Bibliography
Publication Date
2-2024
Abstract
There is no such field as “Piozzi Studies”—at least, not yet. For 250 years, scholarship on Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale) has been desultory at best and at worst non-existent. Scholars who first undertook to analyze her life or edit her works were generally interested only in her relations with Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Once feminist scholars began to champion the Bluestocking Circle, of which Mrs. Thrale was a peripheral member, Piozzi’s life and writings came to be taken more seriously. A significant milestone was reached in 2021 with the conference Celebrating Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741–1821). Still, while Piozzi has been the subject of three excellent biographies since 1940, there is no book-length analysis of her diverse and remarkable writing. Such scholarship as exists is broadly scattered among academic journals and collections.
This bibliography offers a comprehensive listing of published works by and about Piozzi, supplying a brief description of the argument of each essay or book and often a comment on its value to scholars. It is a work in progress that will be updated each January. Addresses of works available online will be added. Apart from dissertations and translations of HLP’s works into Italian and German, this bibliography includes only books and articles that I have read.
Advice and corrections are welcome, as is information about works on Piozzi not yet included.
License
Personal use only
Recommended Citation
Berglund, Lisa Ph.D., "Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale) (1741-1821) An Annotated Bibliography of her Published Works together with Biography, Criticism, and Appearances in Fiction" (2024). English Department Faculty Publications. 1.
https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/english_facpub/1
