Not sure if anyone's noticed or has time to read it, but there is a chapter on Hester Thrale in Francine Prose's "The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the...
Hello Folks Currently re-reading the 'Tour' - and Boswell's life is never far away. I'm a Scot currently living in Yorkshire where I develop IT Systems. Good...
The New York Times Magazine has a column called the Ethicist. This problem was reported. "We recently discovered that the senior pastor at our large parish has...
... pastor ... Randy Cohen (who writes the column) is a big fan of Johnson, and the hardcover edition of his book of collected columns and extra thoughts ("The...
Hi! I'm looking for this book: The Correspondence of James Boswell with Certain Members of 'The Club' James Boswell, ed. Charles N. Fifer, 1976. but I can't...
For those of you who find it too hard to stomach the cost of the 3-volume reprint of the 1905 edition, Amazon.com have just informed me of a single volume...
Tony Terlecki
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Oct 17, 2002 12:47 am
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In February '03, Penguin UK will be publishing a collection of essays. The Yale paperback hasn't been on shelves in eons, and this promises to be a good one. ...
Many public libraries allow their membership to use GaleNet, an online database that provides biographies and critical analysis taken from many articles about...
The other day I was thinking about the opinion that it's thanks to Boswell that Johnson is read as much as he is... And it occurred to me that the reverse is...
lynch_frank writes: It is thanks to Boswell having chosen Johnson as a subject that we read Boswell as much as we do. ... Has anyone run across a discussion of...
Jack Lynch
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Nov 12, 2002 5:00 pm
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... Thanks to Sisman's book, I know about the "Be Johnson" entry Boswell made in his journal... I suppose it's open for speculation, but I wonder if, in...
It occurs to me that if Boswell had written nothing except his journals, that would have been enough to secure his reputation, but I guess the question of...
... journals, ... the ... But I thik he would not have achieved the same level of readership as he did... I could be wrong in my assumption of what the venn...
A good point. The absence of a major contemporary biography of Burke is, perhaps, remarkable; but, then, politicians at the time seldom attracted that sort of...
Earlier today I picked up a prospectus for 'Threadneedles', a new hotel at 5 Threadneedle Street housed in a converted bank building ...
Schulenburg, Alexander
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Nov 27, 2002 2:35 pm
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... If it's any consolation (probably not...), I've seen worse. On Delta Airlines inflight video system, as you approach Gatwick, they credit the quote to "the...
Oh, I think I may gush a bit here! Yesterday the copy of Ogden's collected sermons I had ordered arrived. Bit of a busman's honeymoon for me (preacher's...
Hi! Maybe someone can help me! I'm looking for a poem by William Cooke: "Conversation: a didactic poem, in three parts". I'm interested in the fourth edition,...
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Has anyone read and would care to comment on these recently published books? Designing the Life of Samuel Johnson Bruce Redford ISBN 0198187394 Samuel Johnson...
Monia,
Allibone's Dictionary of Authors,422, shows the 4th edition of Cooke's Conv= ersation was published in 1815, and not in 1822 OCLC Worldcat shows the...
Recently, I read James Clifford's "From Puzzles to Portraits," which discussed the value of basic "on the ground" research when doing a biography, and in it he...
The attached is an excerpt from the Annual Register of 1784-85 (Chronicle), on Page 209. Bryan Reid ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
The only item that I have been able to find is in The Early Biographies of SJ by Brack and Kelley. William Cooke lists the pall bearers and mentions that "his...
