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Eighteenth-Century Women's Images and Roles: The Case of Hester Thrale Piozzi
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 1980
- pp. 65-76
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0867
- Article
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The changing self-images in the autobiographical writings of Hester Thrale Piozzi reflect her struggle to come to terms with the traditional feminine images accepted by her culture. Piozzi's journals record the costs of maintaining and altering these images, illuminating the problems that were beginning to force changes in society's views of women.