These volumes moved James Boswell
, in a revised edition of his life of Johnson, to withdraw his earlier description of HMW
as amiable and to assert that Johnson
would have found her current attitudes...
Friends, Associates
Anna Williams
James Boswell
found Williams increasingly unfriendly and grumpy (though at his first encounter with her he thought her agreeable and jokey—facetious).
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books.
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Because of her blindness she ate with her fingers instead of...
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...