SJ
arrived in Edinburgh to join Boswell
and set out together on their famous tour of the Highlands and islands of western Scotland.
Huntington Library Summary Catalogue of Montagu Papers.
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Travel
Elizabeth Smith
From late 1792 until the following February Elizabeth and her sisters stayed in Bath (where their mother had gone ahead of them to bear her new baby son).
Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell.
15, 24
After the bank crash they...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Muriel Jaeger
This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ
's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed...
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
72
Beginning in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Beryl Bainbridge
Most of this novel's characters—Thrale, Johnson, the child Queeney, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
(in response to whose proddings Queeney produces her retrospective part of the narrative), Giuseppe Baretti
, James Boswell
, Frances Burney
—left their own...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anne Grant
These letters were calculated to contribute to Steuart
's projected but never written book on Jacobite attempts on the throne between the Glorious Revolution and the Rebellion of 1745. They include some comment on women's...
Textual Production
Anna Seward
She said she wanted to puncture the prevailing mood of adulation, but chose anonymity so as not to pain Johnson's step-daughter Lucy Porter
. The following year she supplied materials to Boswell
for his biography...
Textual Production
Frances Sheridan
Boswell
loved the play and was highly flattered by an invitation to supply a prologue. In fact he wrote two successive prologues for it, of which, however, the first was turned down by the author...
Textual Production
Samuel Johnson
SJ
dictated to Boswell
his legal opinion in the case of Joseph Knight
, a slave suing in Scotland for his liberty: he concluded, No man is by nature the property of another: The defendant...
Textual Production
Anna Letitia Barbauld
For this her great support and encouragement was her brother
(as he, rather than her husband
, continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him...
Textual Production
Angela Thirkell
Her title comes from an anecdote in Boswell
's The Life of Samuel Johnson, about a man who tried to be a philosopher, but could not manage it because cheerfulness kept breaking in.
Textual Production
Charlotte Lennox
James Boswell
drafted for CLProposals for Publishing a New and Improved Edition of Shakspeare
Illustrated; this edition was never completed.
Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press.
338
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 4, pp. 416-35.
421
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
EC
's work, An Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man, translated Crousaz' Examen; A Commentary on Mr. Pope's Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man, by Johnson, 1739, translated Crousaz' second...
Textual Production
Frances Reynolds
Most . . . but not all
Hill, George Birkbeck, editor. Johnsonian Miscellanies. Clarendon Press.
Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne.
129
in America, this book had a more mixed reception in Britain. A long review in the Athenæum began by describing CMS
as clear of affectation to the extent of being...
Timeline
15 November 1762-3 August 1763: Beginning on the day on which he left Scotland...
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15 November 1762-3 August 1763
Beginning on the day on which he left Scotland for London, James Boswell
kept the journal which was eventually published as London Journal.
February 1768: James Boswell published his composite work...
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February 1768
James Boswell
published his composite work on the Corsican liberation struggle: An Account of Corsica; the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
11 April 1773: Boswell asked Johnson the reason why women...
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11 April 1773
Boswell
asked Johnson
the reason why women servants were paid so much less than men, although the opposite would seem to reflect natural justice; Johnson had no answer.
3 April 1775: Lord Pembroke told James Boswell about a...
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3 April 1775
Lord Pembroke
told James Boswell
about a London brothel in the habit of employing exclusively black women (it had recently gone mixed).
15 January 1778: A Scottish court found in favour of Joseph...
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15 January 1778
A Scottish court found in favour of Joseph Knight
, a slave of African origin who had been brought to Scotland and now sued for his liberty. In effect this abolished slavery in Scotland: a...
1 October 1785: The year after Johnson's death, Boswell published...
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1 October 1785
The year after Johnson
's death, Boswell
published The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.
April 1791: The month before the appearance of his Life...
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April 1791
The month before the appearance of his Life of Samuel Johnson
, and as parliament debated the bill to abolish slavery, James Boswell
published a long poem entitled No Abolition of Slavery; or, The Universal...
16 May 1791: James Boswell published The Life of Samuel...
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16 May 1791
James Boswell
published The Life of Samuel Johnson, on the twenty-eighth anniversary of the day that he and Johnson first met.
28 December 1817: The painter Benjamin Haydon held what later...