Mrs. Piozzi, by her second marriage, was by her first marriage the Mrs. Thrale in
whose house at Streatham Doctor Johnson was, after the year of his first introduction, 1765, in days of infirmity, an honoured and a cherished friend. ...
These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's
journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May 19, 1795. The volume illuminates both the life and the work of one of ...
A 22-year-old James Boswell met 54-year-old Samuel Johnson in a bookshop and the two began
a lifelong friendship. Boswell, a lawyer, took copious notes during their time together and published his seminal work -- a biography that would influence the ...
According to Wikipedia: Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as
Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in King’s Lynn, England, on 13 ...
A classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet
Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship. Richard Savage ...
I dined yesterday at Mrs Garrick's with Mrs Carter, Miss Hannah More and Miss Fanny
Burbaney. Three such women are not to found; I know not where I could find a fourth, except Mrs Lennox, who is superiour to them ...
Friendships Across Ages: Johnson & Boswell; Holmes & Laski considers each man and goes on
to compare two unlikely, but pivotal, friendships. Through their writing and publishing, young Boswell and Laski both served their much older friends, Johnson and Holmes ...
Much has been written about Thrale, friend and hostess of Samuel Johnson, but this is
the first study to focus on Piozzi as the writer. In his narrative of her life, McCarthy draws on a large body of published and ...
