James Boswell

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Standard Name: Boswell, James,, 1740 - 1795
Indexed Name: James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck
Used Form: Bozzy

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Eglinton Wallace
The work was damned on stage on grounds of indecency.
Wallace, Eglinton. The Ton, or Follies of Fashion. A Comedy. T, Hookham, 1788.
iii
Boswell , who attended the opening night, was not impressed, and noted that the audience included two factions, anti and pro. It was very...
Literary responses Frances Sheridan
The novel in its first form was hugely successful: it brought FS instant fame. Johnson teasingly expressed doubts about her moral right to make your readers suffer so much.
qtd. in
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
xi
Boswell praised the Christian morality...
Literary responses Hester Lynch Piozzi
The Critical Review expressed impatience with yet another collection of memorabilia and complained that the book was deformed by colloquial barbarisms.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
61 (1786): 273
She was attacked in newspapers (even those which began with respect)...
Occupation Catherine Phillips
At a date when CP had already had trouble with her health, James Boswell heard her preach very well at a meeting at White Hart Court in London.
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, 1997.
78
Author summary Samuel Johnson
Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and...
Publishing Jean Marishall
Marishall then turned to Edinburgh's Canongate Theatre , only to have Foote (who had become manager there in November 1770) waste a whole season promising to put it on soon. In the end, after...
Publishing Anna Seward
AS wrote, as Benvolio, a series of letters for the Gentleman's Magazine, cutting Johnson down to size in response to Boswell 's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
139-42
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...
Publishing Anna Seward
AS contributed to debate on Boswell 's Life of Johnson with extracts in the Gentleman's Magazine from her correspondence about Johnson with William Hayley , dating from 1782.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
143, 201-3
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
The year following her Selected Poems, CAD won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,...
Reception Charlotte Lennox
The previous year he had observed that although she had many fopperies (probably meaning affectations), she was a Great genius.
qtd. in
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 2, Apr. 1971, pp. 165-86.
175n149
Lennox wrote in January 1792 to thank Boswell for giving her a share of...
Textual Features Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
From Lady Louisa Stuart 's report of the first volume to be written after its author's marriage (the only one she was permitted to read) it sounds as if it contained reportage rather than introspection...
Textual Features Jane Warton
In this last publication JW was concerned to disabuse the public of the idea that her younger brother had enjoyed drinking and smoking with low persons in alehouses (it was the allegation of low company...
Textual Features Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
Blessington shows remarkable flair for rendering conversation convincingly. Her descriptions, too, especially the account of Byron's appearance with which she opens her work, carry conviction by apparently rendering the observer in the very act of...
Textual Features Hester Lynch Piozzi
Her annotations were a vehicle for her own reminiscences and critical writing. When she marked up her copy of Boswell 's Life of Johnson she contradicted Boswell regularly, offering evidence or reasoning to prove his...

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