Written by Hester Lynch Thrale. Thraliana entry dated 3 June 1781.

I made an Epigram today against drinking; the Town raves so about the prince of Wales getting drunk till he breaks His Blood Vessells.—Sir Rich^d Jebb would like the Verses very well I fancy—

Thraliana: Book spineWritten by Hester Lynch Thrale. Published 1951 by Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Edited by Katherine C. Balderston

When Hester Thrale was thirty-five years old, her husband Henry Thrale gave her a set of six handsome quarto blank books, bound in undressed calf, each bearing on its cover a red label stamped in gold with the title Thraliana. This took place in 1776, a few weeks before their thirteenth wedding anniversary.

Thraliana is a collection of Hester Lynch Thrale's thoughts, experiences and some of her verses from this period of her life. It was important because it was almost, if not quite, the first English Ana.

Written by Hester Lynch Thrale. Thraliana entry dated May 1777.

Bach y graig House: 1776 by S. HooperI never disputed with my Husband in my Life, but to save my Wood in Wales from being cut down as Mr Thrale apparently intended to do: after about a Week’s Intreaties, Tears, and Sullens on my part, he promised me their Lives.

Written by Hester Lynch Thrale. Thraliana entry dated February 1804.

Between 1803 and 1804 London was braced for an expected invasion by France’s Napoleon Bonaparte.

Written by Hester Lynch Thrale. Thraliana entry dated 15 November 1804.

Cecilia Margaretta Mostyn: née ThraleCecilia Mostyn set it in my Head to make these nonsensical Rondeaux She had heard—& so had I—of one made by some lady upon Two Black Eyes but we could not find it—so I made her these on a Country Girl coming to the Metropolis at this foggy Time of Year ’Tis natural enough—tho silly.