Editors Edward and Lillian Bloom have collected and annotated the letters of Hester Lynch Piozzi to her considerable group of correspondents. She and her first husband, Henry Thrale, were intimates of Samuel Johnson and played an important role in London literary life for two decades following their marriage in 1763.

Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters: the correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale). Edited by Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom. 6 vols. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1989-2002.