Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: She mixed with the literary and social elites of London society , and her acquaintances included Samuel Johnson , Edmund Burke , Hester Thrale Piozzi , and William Windham .
Simplified: She mixed with the literary and social elites of London society . She knew people like Samuel Johnson , Edmund Burke , Hester Thrale Piozzi , and William Windham .