Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Thrale: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Thrale: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi

The contents of this volume are selected from the second edition, published in two volumes in 1861, of Mr. Hayward's Autobiography, Letters, and Literary Remains of Mrs. Pz'ozzz'. The first of these volumes consists of the editor's biographical and critical essay, and the only portions of it reprinted here are the Marginal Notes and extracts from T lzralz'ana which Mr. Hayward incorporated in his essay and did not reproduce in his text. I have restored these to their proper place, and have endeavoured to make the book more serviceable by prefixing to the Marginalia the relevant quotations from the texts. In the former edition only page references were given to a particular edition of Johnson's works. The contents of this volume are, I hope, independ ently intelligible. The changes in the grouping of the materials, and the addition of subject-headings, notes, and a detailed index, have been made with the same object in View, namely, to render more acces sible and attractive a book full of value and interest to all students of the period.

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Excerpt from Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Thrale: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi

Mr. Hayward's elaborate essay, of which the limits of the present volume forbade the inclusion. For two other reasons the omission may be justified. A considerable portion of the essay is of a controversial character, and deals with matters no longer sub judice. And no one, I think, would deny that some of the most valuable pages in it are those containing the extracts that Mr. Hayward had the good fortune to present for the first time from the unpublished MSS. of Mrs. Piozzi. These, as I have explained, are inserted in the text of the present edition.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.