James Boswell

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...

Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period...

Through her family EST was said to have made the acquaintance of many persons of talent of that period. R. N., a family friend from Jamaica, helped her with her language studies...

Liddell was to remain one of ICB 's close friends. She maintained a benevolent, almost aunt-like relationship with him, and although resident abroad he was an important source of support after Jourdain's death. He later...

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...

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...

James Boswell found Williams increasingly unfriendly and grumpy (though at his first encounter with her he thought her agreeable and jokey—facetious). Because of her blindness she ate with her fingers instead of...

EW impressed James Boswell with her poems, but also disgusted him by what he called her indelicacy, a criticism which one of his editors attributes to her independence and her ability to give...

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...

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...

Johnson and Boswell paid a visit to the school run by HM 's sisters in Bristol.

Others who were said to have proposed to her but been rejected were John Langhorne , rector of Blagdon in Somerset, and the already elderly Lord Monboddo . More and Langhorne remained friends, and he...

PH went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she...

Mary showed an early talent for drawing which influenced the development of her brother Joshua. She and her next sister, Elizabeth, did little things in visual art (in the condescending phrase of 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...