Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She was Eighty

LibriVox recording of Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty by Hester Lynch Piozzi. Read in English by Carolin Kaiser Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the rich brewer Henry Thrale, Hester Piozzi was associated to the most illustrious figures of London society in her time, among others the famous Samuel Johnson, to whose biography her diaries added valuable details. After surviving Mr. Thrale and her second husband Gabriel Mario Piozzi, at the age of 80, she fell in love with William Augustus Conway, to whom she wrote these letters. - Summary by