Lustig, Irma S. “The Myth of Johnson’s Misogyny in the Life of Johnson: Another View”. Boswell in Scotland and Beyond, edited by Thomas Crawford and Thomas Crawford, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997.
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James Boswell
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Standard Name: Boswell, James,, 1740 - 1795
Indexed Name: James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck
Used Form: Bozzy
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | Helen Maria Williams | |
| Occupation | Catherine Phillips | 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. |
| Author summary | Samuel Johnson | 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... |
| Publishing | Jean Marishall | 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... |
| Publishing | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
| Publishing | Anna Seward | |
| Publishing | Anna Seward | 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. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 143, 201-3 |
| Reception | Charlotte Lennox | The previous year he had observed that although she had many fopperies (probably meaning affectations), she was a Great genius. qtd. in Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 19 , No. 2, Apr. 1971, pp. 165-86. 175n149 |
| Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | 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,... |
| Textual Features | Jane Warton | 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... |
| Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | 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... |
| Textual Features | Anita Desai | 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... |
| Textual Features | Hester Lynch Piozzi | 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... |
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