James Boswell

Liddell was to remain one of ICB 's close friends. She maintained a benevolent, almost aunt-like relationship with him, and although resident abroad he was an important source of support after Jourdain's death. He later...

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...

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...

She applies to her friend a remark about Samuel Johnson from Boswell 's Life: that her death left no-one living who resembled her.

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...

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. She remarks on the paternal affection he entertained...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Critical Review expressed impatience with yet another collection of memorabilia and complained that the book was deformed by colloquial barbarisms. She was attacked in newspapers (even those which began with respect)...

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...

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...