James Boswell

The following year, for the first time in her career, she was earning more by her novels than by her essays and reviews. Her earned income grew markedly during this period, and she took much...

James Boswell found Williams increasingly unfriendly and grumpy (though at his first encounter with her he thought her agreeable and jokey—facetious). Because of her blindness she ate with her fingers instead of...

When Boswell read the elegy On the Death of Stephen Gray , F. R. S., The Author of the Present Doctrine of Electricity, he at once suspected it was by Johnson . Williams stoutly...

These volumes moved James Boswell , in a revised edition of his life of Johnson, to withdraw his earlier description of HMW as amiable and to assert that Johnson would have found her current attitudes...

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...

EW impressed James Boswell with her poems, but also disgusted him by what he called her indelicacy, a criticism which one of his editors attributes to her independence and her ability to give...

The work was damned on stage on grounds of indecency.Boswell , who attended the opening night, was not impressed, and noted that the audience included two factions, anti and pro. It was very...

Through her family EST was said to have made the acquaintance of many persons of talent of that period. R. N., a family friend from Jamaica, helped her with her language studies...

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.

Although Taylor wrote, I am not a good Boswell (and, more emphatically, I would not like to think of myself as a little Boswelly person), she captures the intellectual and emotional nuances...

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). After the bank crash they...

The young James Boswell heard Frances and Thomas Sheridan read her play The Discovery aloud at their home in Windsor, their voices alternating.

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.Boswell praised the Christian morality...

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...

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...