Feelings on Piozzi’s Return, and Marriage
Objections to her Second Marriage discussed
Correspondence with Madame D’Arblay on the Marriage
Objections of Daughters—­Lady Keith
Correspondence with Johnson as to the Marriage
Baretti’s Story of her alleged Deceit
Her uniform Kindness to Johnson
Johnson’s Feelings and Conduct
Miss Wynn’s Commonplace Book
Johnson’s unfounded Objections to the Marriage and erroneous
      Impressions of Piozzi
Miss Seward’s Account of his Loves
Misrepresentation and erroneous Theory of a Critic
Last Days and Death of Johnson
Lord Macaulay’s Summary of Mrs. Piozzi’s Treatment of Johnson
Life in Italy
Projected Work on Johnson
The Florence Miscellany
Correspondence with Cadell and Publication of the “Anecdotes”
Her alleged Inaccuracy, with Instances
H. Walpole
Peter Pindar
H. Walpole again
Hannah More
Marginal Notes on the “Anecdotes”
Extracts from Dr. Lort’s Letters
Her Thoughts on her Return from Italy
Her Reception
Miss Seward’s Impressions of her and Piozzi
Publication of the “Letters”
Opinions on them—­Madame D’Arblay, Queen Charlotte, Hannah More, and
      Miss Seward
Baretti’s libellous Attacks
Her Character of him on his Death
“The Sentimental Mother”
“Johnson’s Ghost”
The Travel Book
Offer to Cadell
Publication of the Book and Criticisms—­Walpole and Miss Seward
Mrs. Piozzi’s Theory of Style
Attacked by Walpole and Gifford
The Preface
Extracts
Anecdote of Goldsmith
Publication of her “Synonyms”—­Gifford’s Attack
Extract
Remarks on the Appearance of Boswell’s Life of Johnson
“Retrospection”
Moore’s Anecdotes of her and Piozzi
Lord Lansdowne’s Visit and Impressions
Adoption and Education of Piozzi’s Nephew, afterwards Sir John Salusbury
Life in Wales
Character and Habits of Piozzi
Brynbella
Illness and Death of Piozzi
Miss Thrale’s Marriage
The Conway Episode
Anecdotes
Celebration of her Eightieth Birthday
Her Death and Will
Madame D’Arblay’s Parallel between Mrs. Piozzi and Madame de Stael
Character of Mrs. Piozzi, Moral and Intellectual

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Autobiography &c.  Of Mrs. Piozzi

VOL.  I

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INTRODUCTION: 

Life and writings of Mrs. Piozzi.

Dr. Johnson was hailed the colossus of Literature by a generation who measured him against men of no common mould—­against Hume, Robertson, Gibbon, Warburton, the Wartons, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Gray, Goldsmith, and Burke.  Any one of these may have surpassed the great lexicographer in some branch of learning or domain of genius; but as a man of letters, in the highest sense of the term, he towered