The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821

Name: The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821
Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi

by Hester Lynch Piozzi, Penelope Pennington

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by MWS, Karin Spence, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2018-04-19

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Public domain in the USA.

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England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Authors, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821 -- Correspondence Pennington, Penelope -- Correspondence

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Hester Lynch Piozzi

1741–1821

Known for her lively diaries, letters, and travel writing, she moved at the center of 18th-century literary life and left a vivid record of the people and conversations around her. Her work still feels fresh because it is sharp, curious, and full of personality.

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Penelope Pennington

1757–1827

Known today mainly through her lively correspondence, this late Georgian writer moved in a circle of literary friends that included Hester Lynch Piozzi and Anna Seward. Her surviving letters offer a warm, personal glimpse of friendship, travel, and cultivated social life in Britain around the turn of the nineteenth century.

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