James Boswell

She said she wanted to puncture the prevailing mood of adulation, but chose anonymity so as not to pain Johnson's step-daughter Lucy Porter . The following year she supplied materials to Boswell for his biography...

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...

Her annotations were a vehicle for her own reminiscences and critical writing. When she marked up her copy of Boswell 's Life of Johnson she contradicted Boswell regularly, offering evidence or reasoning to prove his...

Blessington shows remarkable flair for rendering conversation convincingly. Her descriptions, too, especially the account of Byron's appearance with which she opens her work, carry conviction by apparently rendering the observer in the very act of...

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...

In The Indian Writer's Problems (which appeared in Quest in 1970 and in the Literary Criterion in 1975, and was reprinted in Perspectives on Anita Desai), she remarks that English is the language that...

From Lady Louisa Stuart 's report of the first volume to be written after its author's marriage (the only one she was permitted to read) it sounds as if it contained reportage rather than introspection...

The previous year he had observed that although she had many fopperies (probably meaning affectations), she was a Great genius. Lennox wrote in January 1792 to thank Boswell for giving her a share of...

The year following her Selected Poems, CAD won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,...

Marishall then turned to Edinburgh's Canongate Theatre , only to have Foote (who had become manager there in November 1770) waste a whole season promising to put it on soon. In the end, after...

AS wrote, as Benvolio, a series of letters for the Gentleman's Magazine, cutting Johnson down to size in response to Boswell 's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides.

AS contributed to debate on Boswell 's Life of Johnson with extracts in the Gentleman's Magazine from her correspondence about Johnson with William Hayley , dating from 1782.

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...

Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and...

At a date when CP had already had trouble with her health, James Boswell heard her preach very well at a meeting at White Hart Court in London.