Frau, OmbrettaSchwartz, RobertMcGinness, FrederickTaylor, Molly2011-02-162011-02-162011-02-162005-06-30http://hdl.handle.net/10166/708This thesis project investigates the ways in which one woman's life was transformed during, and as a result of, her journey through Italy in the late eighteenth century. Hester Thrale Piozzi was an iconoclast who challenged the definition in which British society cast her. As a literary dissenter, she opens a window for us onto the limiting expectations; yet true opportunities, for courageous women in Georgian England.en-USBritish history18th centurywomen writersitalygrand tourThesispublic