Evidence: | '[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as he had [italics] given [end italics] those Essays to Dr Bathurst, who sold them at two guineas each, he never would own them; nay, he used to say that he did not [italics] write [end italics] them: but the fact was, that he [italics] dictated [end italics] them,while Bathurst wrote". I read to him Mrs Williams's account; he smiled, and said nothing'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1763 and 13 Dec 1787 | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | James Boswell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 29 Oct 1740 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | lawyer / writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Dr Johnson |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | James Boswell |
Title: | [account given to him by Mrs Williams] |
Genre: | Biography |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 20802 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R.W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 179 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 179, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20802, accessed: 31 May 2023 |
Originally published 1791. |
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