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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 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | 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... |
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. 48 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | In Through the Magic DoorSACD
wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart
, Boswell
, Walter Scott
, Thomas Babington Macaulay
, Carlyle
, Melville |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Mary Moore | The title-page quotes from Shakespeare
(What's past is Prologue) and Cicero
(That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co. prelims |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | She applies to her friend a remark about Samuel Johnson
from Boswell
's Life: that her death left no-one living who resembled her. Austen, Jane. Minor Works. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Oxford University Press. 440-2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | Although Taylor wrote, I am not a good Boswell Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 49 Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 55 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
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 |
Literary responses | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | 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... |
Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Montagu | 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... |
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 |
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. 206 |
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