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Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To Which Are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed

Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To Which Are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed

Johnson, Samuel
Piozzi, Hester Lynch

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Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1108059961
ISBN13: 9781108059961
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 6 2013
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
One of the most celebrated individuals of English literature, Samuel Johnson (1709-84) was a defining figure of his age. In addition to his celebrated labours as a lexicographer, Johnson distinguished himself as a poet, essayist, critic, biographer and editor. The writer and society hostess Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) was an unconventional woman of great intellectual vivacity. She became a close friend of Johnson, whom she met through her first husband, the brewer Henry Thrale, whose ailing business Johnson did much to support. As well as writing essays, poetry, memoirs and travel diaries, she was one of the first women to produce works on philology and history. First published in 1788 - two years after her groundbreaking Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, which anticipated Boswell's biography - these letters offer a captivating glimpse into their daily lives and concerns. Volume 2 covers the period 1777 to 1784.

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