James Boswell: the reluctant rake who battled the lure of respectability The Scotsman | July 3, 2004| | Copyright 2004 The Scotsman. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

HE WAS variously described as an "idler, a lecher, a drunkard and a snob". Eighteenth-century Scottish aristocrat James Boswell, the biographer of literary giant Samuel Johnson and a witty diarist of his own exploits, achieved fame and infamy in equal measure.

It had been thought that Boswell only truly regretted his legendary drinking, promiscuity and biting sarcasm in later life when he began to fear retribution in the afterlife.

But new research by academics at Yale University in the US - which acquired a vast amount of Boswell's letters and journals in the 1950s - has found he battled ...

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