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Boswell, James

  1. An eighteenth-century Scottish author, best known for his Life of Samuel Johnson .


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Notes

Boswell has become a general term for a biographer: “James Joyce found his Boswell in Richard Ellmann.”
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Boswell, James, xx, lx, 318, 322, 325, 335 Boswell, James, the younger, 316.

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Boswell, James, the biographer of Johnson, born at Edinburgh, showed early a penchant for writing and an admiration for literary men; fell in with Johnson on a visit to London in 1763, and conceived for him the most devoted regard; made a tour with him to the Hebrides in 1773, the "Journal" of which he afterwards published; settled in London, and was called to the English bar; succeeded, in 1782, to his father's estate, Auchinleck, in Ayrshire, with an income of £1600 a year.

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BOSWELL, James, account of himself, i.

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BOSWELL, James, the author's second son, birth, iii.

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BOSWELL, James, Bishop Percy's Communications, lvii; Johnson in his last illness, and to publish 'praises' of him, lxiii; Lurgan Clanbrassil, li; projected works, lxvii; Remarks on the profession of a player, lxi; visit to Rousseau and Voltaire, xlvi.

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