James Boswell

ES received her first education at home, from her sisters Ethel, Bertha, and Mabel (the eldest), who taught the younger ones Bible stories on Sundays. At the same time she imbibed from her brothers the...

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.

James Boswell seems to have attempted seducing AS . Though she granted him the lock of her hair which he begged in May 1784 (still in existence, still auburn in colour), she discerned and...

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 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. As Seward's biographer remarks, the general tone...

The European Magazine panned Louisa for French sensibility, while mentioning a favourable review by James Boswell . The Critical said it would not diminish AS 's already high credit. She herself...

While apparently received enthusiastically in America, this book had a more mixed reception in Britain. A long review in the Athenæum began by describing CMS as clear of affectation to the extent of being...

Caroline's father, born Archibald James Edward Stewart , was the son of a duke's daughter (though this identity became a matter for dispute). He was one of two claimants to the landed estates of his...

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. By this time, too, her political contacts included...

Most . . . but not all of FR 's Recollections of Dr. Johnson was printed by John Wilson Croker in his edition of Boswell 's Life of Samuel Johnson, as one...

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...

Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds , Arthur Murphy , Edmund Burke , Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Burney , and David Garrick . Later came the young Frances Burney , who became a...

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)...

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...