Boswell From: A New Dictionary of Eponyms | Date: 1997| Author: Morton S. Freeman | © A New Dictionary of Eponyms 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997. Copyright information

Boswell, Boswellize James Boswell (1740–1795) has been regarded as the foremost biographer in English literature. His great masterpiece was The Life of Samuel Johnson, the great compiler of the English dictionary. Thomas Macaulay ranked the biography first among biographies of all time.

Boswell was born in Edinburgh and educated there and in Glasgow, and the University of Utrecht in Holland. He met Johnson (1...

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