Evidence: | 'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that her father wrote the first two volumes: and in another book, 'Dunton's Life and Errours', we find that the rest was written by one Sault, at two guineas a sheet, under the direction of Dr. Midgeley".' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 10 Apr 1783 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Samuel Johnson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 18 Sep 1709 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Delarivier Manley |
Title: | Adventures of Rivella, or the History of the Author of The New Atalantis |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 22241 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R.W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 1215-16 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 1215-16, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22241, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
Originally published 1791. In fact the book seems to have been written in Italian by Giovanni Paolo Marana, and a translation into English edited by Midgeley. |
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