Lustig, Irma S. “The Myth of Johnson’s Misogyny in the Life of Johnson: Another View”. Boswell in Scotland and Beyond, edited by Thomas Crawford and Thomas Crawford, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997.
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Cultural formation | Samuel Johnson | James Boswell
recorded a crushing response made by SJ
as part of his account of hearing Margaret Bell
, c. 1708-77, a Quaker minister, preach at Lombard Street meeting. Lustig, Irma S. “The Myth of Johnson’s Misogyny in the Life of Johnson: Another View”. Boswell in Scotland and Beyond, edited by Thomas Crawford and Thomas Crawford, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997. 78 |
Cultural formation | Hannah Cullwick | To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing... |
Dedications | Janet Little | She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell
, who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication. Brady, Frank. James Boswell, the Later Years, 1769-1795. Heinemann, 1984. 464, 572 |
Education | Mary Palmer | Mary showed an early talent for drawing which influenced the development of her brother Joshua. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Education | Evelyn Sharp | ES
received her first education at home, from her sisters Ethel, Bertha, and Mabel (the eldest), who taught the younger ones Bible stories on Sundays. At the same time she imbibed from her brothers the... |
Education | Patricia Highsmith | PH
went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah More | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah More | Others who were said to have proposed to her but been rejected were John Langhorne
, rector of Blagdon in Somerset, and the already elderly Lord Monboddo
. More and Langhorne remained friends, and he... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eglinton Wallace | EW
impressed James Boswell
with her poems, but also disgusted him by what he called her indelicacy, Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Boswell, James. Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782. Reed, Joseph W. and Frederick A. PottleEditors , McGraw-Hill, 1977. 260 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Scott | Caroline's father, born Archibald James Edward Stewart
, was the son of a duke's daughter (though this identity became a matter for dispute). He was one of two claimants to the landed estates of his... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Seward | James Boswell
seems to have attempted seducing AS
. Though she granted him the lock of her hair which he begged in May 1784 (still in existence, still auburn in colour), Brady, Frank. James Boswell, the Later Years, 1769-1795. Heinemann, 1984. 254-5 |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 157 |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Through her family EST
was said to have made the acquaintance of many persons of talent of that period. Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. “Introduction”. The Victim of Fancy, edited by Daniel Cook, Pickering and Chatto, 2009, p. xi - xxxi. xii |
Friends, Associates | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Liddell was to remain one of ICB
's close friends. She maintained a benevolent, almost aunt-like relationship with him, and although resident abroad he was an important source of support after Jourdain's death. He later... |