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Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 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... |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | 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... |
Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | 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... |
Textual Production | Samuel Johnson | SJ
dictated to Boswell
his legal opinion in the case of Joseph Knight
, a slave suing in Scotland for his liberty: he concluded, No man is by nature the property of another: The defendant... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | Her title comes from an anecdote in Boswell
's The Life of Samuel Johnson, about a man who tried to be a philosopher, but could not manage it because cheerfulness kept breaking in. |
Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | James Boswell
drafted for CLProposals for Publishing a New and Improved Edition of Shakspeare
Illustrated; this edition was never completed. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. 338 Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 19 , No. 4, pp. 416-35. 421 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | EC
's work, An Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man, translated Crousaz' Examen; A Commentary on Mr. Pope's Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man, by Johnson, 1739, translated Crousaz' second... |
Textual Production | Frances Reynolds | Most . . . but not all Hill, George Birkbeck, editor. Johnsonian Miscellanies. Clarendon Press. 1: xi |
Textual Production | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | While apparently received enthusiastically Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne. 129 |
Textual Production | Anna Williams | When Boswell
read the elegy On the Death of Stephen Gray
, F. R. S., The Author of the Present Doctrine of Electricity, he at once suspected it was by Johnson
. Williams stoutly... |
Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | The young James Boswell
heard Frances
and Thomas Sheridan
read her play The Discovery aloud at their home in Windsor, their voices alternating. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35. 22 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ
's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Geraldine Jewsbury | Zoe reflects GJ
's own lifelong spiritual crisis. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 223-4 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 72 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Beryl Bainbridge | Most of this novel's characters—Thrale, Johnson, the child Queeney, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
(in response to whose proddings Queeney produces her retrospective part of the narrative), Giuseppe Baretti
, James Boswell
, Frances Burney
—left their own... |
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