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Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale - Sport, Health and Exercise in eighteenth-century England (Paperback, New)
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Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale - Sport, Health and Exercise in eighteenth-century England (Paperback, New)
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In 'Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale Julia Allen has taken a
sideways look at her subject and in so doing has revealed
unfamiliar sides of the eponymous characters she uses as guides and
commentators. Samuel Johnson does battle with the rough breakers at
Brighton as energetically as he did with any of his verbal
opponents; and Hester Thrale - herself 'a good water-spaniel' -
provides wry observations, notably on what men decided women might
decently be allowed to do in that foreign country that is the past.
In Part I Allen goes into the medical theories underpinning notions
about exercise, the role of the physician, the work of the surgeon,
the conditions in which exercise was taken, its place in
child-rearing and education, and its e cacy as a remedy for
melancholy. Part II comprises chapters on the various sports and
forms of exercise associated with Johnson and Mrs Thrale, from
boxing and swimming to dancing and coach travel; these include
brief lives of the star performers, and eye-witness accounts of the
events they took part in. Essentially, however, this is a book for
anyone interested in peering into some of the obscurer recesses of
eighteenth-century life. Julia Allen read English at Bristol
University and has worked as a teacher, librarian, translator and
lexicographer. She is the author of 'Samuel Johnson's menagerie'
(2002) and in 2009 was the curator for an exhibition at Cambridge
University Library jointly commemorating the University's 800th
anniversary and the 300th anniversary of Johnson's birth.
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