RG
was critical of the distaste with which English writers Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
or Vita Sackville-West
had regarded their American lecture audiences. About her coast-to-coast tour with her husband she later wrote, I took...
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.