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Thrale

[ threyl ]

noun

  1. Hester Lynch Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.


Thrale

/ θreɪl /

noun

  1. ThraleHester Lynch17411821FEnglishWRITING: writer of memoirs Hester Lynch, known as Mrs Thrale or (later) Mrs Piozzi (née Salusbury ). 1741–1821, English writer of memoirs, noted for her friendship with Dr Johnson. Her works include Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) and Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson (1788)
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Example Sentences

In the novel, Hester Thrale gives him his own room, which he often doesn’t leave.

According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge In this brilliant novel, Bainbridge imagines the year 1764, when Samuel Johnson met the Thrale family and became a regular houseguest at their home in then-rural Southwark.

As he composes his group portrait of the Club’s intellectual and artistic superstars, he extends retroactive membership to several notable women, such as Johnson’s benefactor Hester Thrale and the novelist and diarist Fanny Burney.

Burney’s friend Hester Thrale said that Burney’s father thought Latin “too masculine for Misses.”

Aware how unbearable it was for him to be alone, Thrale took him to live with her and her wealthy husband, Henry, at Streatham Place, south of London.

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