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James Boswell
Boswell, James
Boswell, James (1740–95) Scottish biographer and writer. As a young man, he travelled widely in Europe, meeting
Voltaire and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau. An inveterate hero-worshipper, Boswell found his vocation as the friend and biographer of Samuel
Johnson. His monumental
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) is regarded not only as his masterpiece but also one of the greatest biographies in English. Boswell's other works include
An Account of Corsica (1768) and
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785), an account of his travels with Johnson. His often disconcertingly frank journals paint a colourful picture of contemporary life. See also
biography
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A Life of James Boswell.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Peter Martin A Life of James Boswell. Yale University Press, 613...masterpiece could have been produced by James Boswell. The biographer was regarded...biography of him. In A Life of James Boswell, Peter Martin has taken the direct...
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Nostalgic correspondence and James Boswell's Scottish malady.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; In February 1763 the young James Boswell, then in London, dined with...Highlands by another acquaintance of Boswell's, James Macpherson. Sheridan, never...because it suggests much about James Boswell's early writings, about Scottishness...
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The Journals of James Boswell: 1762-1795.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...of explorers like Captain Cook. James Bowell, the subject and author...John Wain's fine The Journals of James Boswell 1762-1795, travelled for afl...questions. Wain's The Journals of James Boswell, by focussing on the life and...
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A Life of JAMES BOSWELL.(Review)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 12/25/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Best known for his famous biography of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell is subject of a new study that reveals his rich literary and social life, as well as his intemperate habits. James Boswell left behind more material about himself than any other...
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Books: From Bozzy the boozer to literary great A Life of James Boswell by Peter Martin Weidenfeld pounds 25
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/15/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Babington Macaulay wrote of James Boswell in his infamous 1831...with Dr Johnson, though Boswell believed he understood...example, he strolled in St James's Park, "and took...smelt of spirits." Boswell's intense geniality...
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James Boswell: the reluctant rake who battled the lure of respectability
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 7/3/2004; ; 598 words
; ...century Scottish aristocrat James Boswell, the biographer of literary...respectable life. Dr James Caudle, of Yale University...that even as a teenager, Boswell had serious doubts about...General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757-1763, which...
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Books: The lad of many parts A Life of James Boswell by Peter Martin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 25, 613pp: Sixteen bouts of gonorrhoea failed to dent a huge appetite for life.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/14/1999; ; 700+ words
; The usual perception of James Boswell is of a vain, egotistical, amoral...witty. To put it another way, Boswell is forever the Watson to Johnson...expectations. He persuades me that Boswell was a better writer than Johnson...
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The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 10/1/1999; ; 488 words
; The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb...eighth of the Correspondence of James Boswell, one of three series in the Yale...Edition of The Private Papers of James Boswell, was begun 40 years ago by Nellie...
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Microware Systems Corporation Names James Boswell as Vice President of Sales.
Business Wire; 2/26/1999; 700+ words
; ...today announced the appointment of James Boswell as Vice President of Sales. Boswell...As Vice President of Sales, Boswell will play an integral role in developing...to announce the appointment of James Boswell to this vital Microware post...
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James Boswell's historic home to be restored to former glory
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/18/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...in Ayrshire, the family seat of James Boswell, will be restored to its original...a magnificent place to stay." Boswell is best remembered for writing...sharp observations he shared. James Boswell trained as a lawyer but he preferred...
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James Boswell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
James Boswell The Scottish biographer and diarist James Boswell (1740-1795), who wrote The Life...Bozzie" as a most distinguished diarist. James Boswell was born in Edinburgh on Oct. 29, 1740...
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Boswell, James (1740–1795)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
BOSWELL, JAMES (1740 – 1795) BOSWELL, JAMES (1740 – 1795), Scottish biographer, lawyer, and man of letters. James Boswell is most famous as the author of the Life of Samuel Johnson...
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Boswell, James
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Boswell, James (1740–95), the eldest son of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck (pron. Affleck), a Scottish...edited. Although his family remained in Scotland, Boswell visited London as frequently as possible. Johnson...
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Johnson, Samuel
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1820). A year later he met James Boswell (1740–1795), the son of a Scottish judge. Boswell became Johnson's devoted companion...1564–1616). In 1773 James Boswell persuaded Johnson to join him in...
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Samuel Johnson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...year was marked by his meeting with James Boswell , whose famous biography presents...Edmund Burke, David Garrick, and Boswell. The brilliance of this intellectual...1773 he toured the Hebrides with Boswell and published his account of the...
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