James Boswell

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...

Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and...

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...

James Boswell drafted for CLProposals for Publishing a New and Improved Edition of Shakspeare Illustrated; this edition was never completed.

The previous year he had observed that although she had many fopperies (probably meaning affectations), she was a Great genius. Lennox wrote in January 1792 to thank Boswell for giving her a share of...

This work quotes Cowper on the title-page. The short stories (genuinely short this time) include A Few Days from My Journal (which opens with Johnson 's well-known remark to Boswell about the pleasure of driving...

She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell , who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication.Burns helped to drum up subscribers, who numbered in the end...

She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in...

When on 25 April 1778 the topic came up among Samuel Johnson , Frances Reynolds , and James Boswell of a lady's verses on Ireland, it must have been a reference to MBCL 's poem...

Blessington shows remarkable flair for rendering conversation convincingly. Her descriptions, too, especially the account of Byron's appearance with which she opens her work, carry conviction by apparently rendering the observer in the very act of...

Marishall then turned to Edinburgh's Canongate Theatre , only to have Foote (who had become manager there in November 1770) waste a whole season promising to put it on soon. In the end, after...

The patriotism of EM 's riposte ensured its enthusiastic reception. Readers (among them a brother of Elizabeth Carter , who refrained from enlightening him) assumed that the anonymity of this authoritative critical voice concealed a...

From Lady Louisa Stuart 's report of the first volume to be written after its author's marriage (the only one she was permitted to read) it sounds as if it contained reportage rather than introspection...

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

Johnson and Boswell paid a visit to the school run by HM 's sisters in Bristol.