She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell
, who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication.
Brady, Frank. James Boswell, the Later Years, 1769-1795. Heinemann.
464, 572
Burns
helped to drum up subscribers, who numbered in the end...
Cultural formation
Hannah Cullwick
To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing...
Cultural formation
Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
recorded a crushing response made by SJ
as part of his account of hearing Margaret Bell
, c. 1708-77, a Quaker minister, preach at Lombard Street meeting.
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.