Elizabeth Johnson

The twenty-five-year old SJ married, at Derby, a widow who was twenty years older, Elizabeth Porter ; he said it was a love match on both sides.

AW 's father knew many of the leading figures in the science of his day, and she probably met them through him. Her celebrated friendship with Samuel Johnson seems to have begun through his interest...

This collection moved the Times Literary Supplement to declare that its delicacy—of scrupulousness, balance, fineness, skill—is as rare in life and in art as ever it was.Dixon Scott wrote in the Liverpool Courier...

She was unhappy that Sargent 's portrait of her was reproduced as the frontispiece, but was otherwise pleased with the book and its sales. It included four previously unpublished essays, two of them on the...