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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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...
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
Because of her blindness she ate with her fingers instead of...
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
The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...
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
(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...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth B. Lester
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...
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...
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
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...
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
Boswell praised the Christian morality...
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
As Seward's biographer remarks, the general tone...

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