The Italian Journey of Hester Lynch Piozzi: The personal and cultural transformation of a Georgian lady.

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2011-02-16

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This 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.

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British history, 18th century, women writers, italy, grand tour

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