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

The last letter shows the appearance of the little rift in the lute of friendship, which was destined to silence its tones for so many years. Its origin remains obscure. If Mrs....

In July 1788 the Piozzis took rooms at Exmouth, from which they had views "of sea and land, Lord Courtney's fine seat and Lord Lisburne's pretty grounds all facing us." But thou...

... I do assure you that between your own house and this no greater anxiety has been felt for Mr. Whalley; he is our very true friend, and we have sense enough to know it. He is...

My dear Mrs. Pennington will excuse her old Friend if, having long forborne to write because she had nothing to say, she continued that forbearance lately because she had too mu...

The Piozzis were at Bath on Christmas Day, when she invites Mrs. Pennington to their lodgings for the New Year. The date of the next letter indicates that their visit lasted abo...

By the time the next letter was written Miss Weston had become Mrs. Pennington, and had taken up her abode at the Hot Wells, in a house in Dowry Square. It points to a serious e...

In the course of the last hundred years the horizon of woman's work and interests has been extended so widely, and in so many directions, religious, educational, political, econ...

Renewal of friendship, 1819--Weston-super-Mare--W. A. Conway--Birthday fête, 1820--Conway's love affair--Penzance--The Queen's trial--More law--Land's End--Return to Clifton and...

is her Physician, and you could know from _him_, without any immediate enquiry as if _I_ wished to hear, which she would consider as if intrusive and inquisitive, and would _say...