Hester Thrale, Welsh author (died 1821)

Hester Thrale

Welsh writer and socialite (1740/1741–1821)

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a Welsh writer and socialite who was an important source on Samuel Johnson and 18th-century British life. She belonged to the prominent Salusbury family of Anglo-Welsh landowners, and married firstly a wealthy brewer, Henry Thrale, with whom she…