James Boswell

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Standard Name: Boswell, James,, 1740 - 1795
Indexed Name: James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck
Used Form: Bozzy

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Education Mary Palmer
Mary showed an early talent for drawing which influenced the development of her brother Joshua.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She and her next sister, Elizabeth, did little things in visual art (in the condescending phrase of James Boswell )...
Occupation Catherine Phillips
At a date when CP had already had trouble with her health, James Boswell heard her preach very well at a meeting at White Hart Court in London.
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.
78
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.
157
Later came the young Frances Burney , who became a...
Literary responses Hester Lynch Piozzi
The Critical Review expressed impatience with yet another collection of memorabilia and complained that the book was deformed by colloquial barbarisms.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
61 (1786): 273
She was attacked in newspapers (even those which began with respect)...
Textual Features Hester Lynch Piozzi
Her annotations were a vehicle for her own reminiscences and critical writing. When she marked up her copy of Boswell 's Life of Johnson she contradicted Boswell regularly, offering evidence or reasoning to prove his...
Textual Production Frances Reynolds
Most . . . but not all
Hill, George Birkbeck, editor. Johnsonian Miscellanies. Clarendon Press.
1: xi
of FR 's Recollections of Dr. Johnson was printed by John Wilson Croker in his edition of Boswell 's Life of Samuel Johnson, as one...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Reynolds
FR pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men.
Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, pp. 2: 250 - 300.
2: 252
She remarks on the paternal affection he entertained...
Friends, Associates Maria Riddell
She had already by this date, on a visit to London, met Boswell , the biographer, and found him a stranger biped than any she knew.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press.
63
By this time, too, her political contacts included...
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...
Textual Production Catharine Maria Sedgwick
While apparently received enthusiastically
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...
Publishing Anna Seward
AS wrote, as Benvolio, a series of letters for the Gentleman's Magazine, cutting Johnson down to size in response to Boswell 's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
139-42
Publishing Anna Seward
AS contributed to debate on Boswell 's Life of Johnson with extracts in the Gentleman's Magazine from her correspondence about Johnson with William Hayley , dating from 1782.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
143, 201-3
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.
254-5
she discerned and...
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...

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