Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Boswell

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.'Jane Austen James BoswellTour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b...Ellen Weeton James BoswellTour of the HebridesPrint: Book
1800-1849Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it.John Horrocks Ainsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd.John Horrocks Ainsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from...Richard Pyke James BoswellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw...Philip Inman James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jack Common recalled that his mother brought him a secondhand and severely abridged "Life of Johnson" for 1d., and he...Jack Common James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 30 August 1800: 'I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson.'Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after ...Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after ...Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the ev...Anne Lister James BoswellThe journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been John...Leslie Stephen James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
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Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear...Ellen Weeton James BoswellThe Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with SamuelPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson which is very entertaining; I never saw Johnson's Journey to the Hebrid...Robert Sharp James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recd a parcel from William last night. I was at the time reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, but it was immediately la...Robert Sharp James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
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H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as wel...James Leigh Hunt James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
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"Fulke Greville's copy of Boswell [Life of Johnson] stands out among individual copies annotated by readers who had kn...Fulke Greville James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
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H. J. Jackson discusses annotations of unidentified male reader in 1793 copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson; this reader...Mr L. James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
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H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of te...John Gibson Lockhart James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
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"An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likel...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu...Fulke Greville James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu...Fulke Greville James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu...Fulke Greville James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Ody...George Eliot and G.H. LewesJames Boswellprobably Life of JohnsonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused "Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson"; which I still consider to be a...Thomas Carter James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you Tom Davis's Life of David Garrick? I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, and should like to peruse ... BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849' ... he [ie George III] paid attention when books were read to him, and asked for excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Jo...King George III James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading the "Life of Dr. Johnson", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found ...Donald William Alers Hankey James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was about noon, and the officers had all gone home to their dinners, when, as I sat on my stool munching my loaf a...James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Pursued Boswell's "life of Johnson"....'Thomas Green James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...'Thomas Green James BoswellThe life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Print: Book
1900-1945'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it ...Arnold Bennett James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...Mountstuart Elphinstone [James] BoswellLife of [Samuel] JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday May 23rd. [...] Read Boswell's Life of Johnson.' [records of reading this text also appear in entries for ...Claire Clairmont James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Boswell's life of Johnson'Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson LL.D.Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - finish Life of Johnson'Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson LL.D.Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832: 'Mr Croker has lately published an edition of Boswell's Life o...Elizabeth Barrett James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione...Percy Bysshe Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson LL.D.Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Boswell I am sure ten times - & hope to read it many more it is the most amusing book in the world, besid...Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli...Anna Grosvenor James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Print: Book
1900-1945' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's concept...Vita Sackville-West James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".'Frank Smythe James BoswellA Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799'[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as...James Boswell James Boswell[account given to him by Mrs Williams]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'He kept the greater part of mine [letters] very carefully; and a short time before his death was attentive enough to ...James Boswell James Boswell[letter to Johnson from Corsica]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the...Hester Lynch Thrale James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the HebridesManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop...John Wilkes James Boswell[notes of conversation between Wilkes and Dr Johnson]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th...Alexander Dick James BoswellAn Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island, & Memoirs of Pascal PaoliPrint: Book
1850-1899'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]' Robert Louis Stevenson James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson.Print: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'I have just advanced so far towards recovery as to read a pamphlet; and you may rea...Samuel Johnson James BoswellLetter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation
1800-1849The Earl of Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, in response to a query regarding quotation from Homer by Thucydides, 1 Sep...Earl of Aberdeen James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham (1850-51): 'And so you are reading my Bozzy'.Henry Brougham James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'In the following lines, by that pious and most excellent of...James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]John...Lady Harriet Cavendish James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]John...Lady Harriet Cavendish James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831): 'I hav...Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....Alfred Rawlings James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....Ernest E. Unwin James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....Reginald Robson James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....Charles Evans James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....Henry Marriage Wallis James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book

 

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