| Evidence: | H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Boswell in the Life of Samuel Johnson:
"A Cambridge University Library copy of the first edition annotated in at least four hands has in the margin at that point a list of words that would appear to refute Johnson's statement: 'Shepherd / Cowherd / Abhor / Behave / Uphold / Exhaust' (1: 166)." |
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | James Boswell |
| Title: | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 2 vols. London: Dilly, 1791 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5563 | |
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| Author: | H. J. Jackson | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
| Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 177 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 177, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5563, accessed: 10 December 2023 | |
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