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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Literary responses Anna Seward
Boswell responded in the magazine's columns in January 1794, with all guns blazing. He mocked AS for being elderly, female, provincial, over-praised, and without a classical education.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
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As Seward's biographer remarks, the general tone...
Literary responses Anna Seward
The European Magazine panned Louisa for French sensibility, while mentioning a favourable review by James Boswell .
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
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The Critical said it would not diminish AS 's already high credit.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
58 (1784): 27
She herself...
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...
Textual Production Frances Sheridan
The young James Boswell heard Frances and Thomas Sheridan read her play The Discovery aloud at their home in Windsor, their voices alternating.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35.
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Literary responses Frances Sheridan
The novel in its first form was hugely successful: it brought FS instant fame. Johnson teasingly expressed doubts about her moral right to make your readers suffer so much.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
xi
Boswell praised the Christian morality...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Sheridan
FS used Boswell 's second prologue as the basis for her own, sharpening it a good deal in rewriting. Where he represents her petitioning for her audience's favour, hoping in particular for the support of...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Taylor
Although Taylor wrote, I am not a good Boswell
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
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(and, more emphatically, I would not like to think of myself as a little Boswelly person),
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
55
she captures the intellectual and emotional nuances...
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.
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, p. xi - xxxi.
xii
R. N., a family friend from Jamaica, helped her with her language studies...
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 et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Boswell, James. Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782. Editors Reed, Joseph W. and Frederick A. Pottle, McGraw-Hill.
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a criticism which one of his editors attributes to her independence and her ability to give...
Literary responses Eglinton Wallace
The work was damned on stage on grounds of indecency.
Wallace, Eglinton. The Ton, or Follies of Fashion. A Comedy. T, Hookham.
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Boswell , who attended the opening night, was not impressed, and noted that the audience included two factions, anti and pro. It was very...
Textual Features Jane Warton
In this last publication JW was concerned to disabuse the public of the idea that her younger brother had enjoyed drinking and smoking with low persons in alehouses (it was the allegation of low company...
Friends, Associates Anna Williams
James Boswell found Williams increasingly unfriendly and grumpy (though at his first encounter with her he thought her agreeable and jokey—facetious).
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books.
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Because of her blindness she ate with her fingers instead of...

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