James Boswell

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...

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.

She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell , who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication.Burns helped to drum up subscribers, who numbered in the end...

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...

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 )...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...