Johnson And Boswell: The Story Of Their Lives
Johnson And Boswell: The Story Of Their Lives

Author: Hesketh Pearson

Publisher: House of Stratus

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0755154304

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Hesketh Pearson’s biography is the first to combine the story of the two men whose lives were inseparable in the history of literature. He has included reliable contemporary accounts of Johnson, such as Fanny Burney’s, and skilfully made sense of Boswell’s own writings to form a clearer picture of the man of letters.

The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century
The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Howard Peter Anderson

Publisher: University Press of Kansas

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13:

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With the growth of efficient postal service in England and the stimulus of a growing tradition of informal prose among eighteenth-century men of leisure, the intimate letter reached unprecedented literary heights as the exemplary form of the period. Considered here are the striking and diverse qualities both of the art and the personalities of the great letter-writers: Swift, Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Richardson, the Earl of Chesterfield, Johnson, Sterne, Gray, Walpole, Burke, Cowper, Gibbon, and Boswell.

Boswell and the Press
Boswell and the Press

Author: Donald J. Newman

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2021-03-12

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1684482836

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Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.