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Literary authors, parliamentary reporters
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Nikki Hessell |
"Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt and Charles Dickens all worked as parliamentary reporters, but their experiences in the press gallery have not received much scrutiny. Nikki … |
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Daily life in Johnson's London
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Richard B. Schwartz |
Drawing on a wide range of contemporary accounts and modern scholarship, Schwartz captures the very texture of the vanished world of eighteenth-century London--from fops to cock-fights, from the plea… |
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The fortunes of Francis Barber
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Michael Bundock |
"This compelling book chronicles a young boy's journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London's literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis… |
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Regulating confusion
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Thomas Reinert |
With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English Society, moral philosophers became preoccupied with the difference between individual and crowd behavior. In so doing, they set the stage for a for… |
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Boswell's presumptuous task
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Adam Sisman |
"James Boswell's Life of Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. And yet Boswell himself has genera… |
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A biographer at work
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Harriet Kirkley |
"A Biographer at Work: Johnson's Notes for the "Life of Pope" contains an edition of hitherto unpublished notes. Samuel Johnson made them as he prepared to write the text of his biographical preface … |
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