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Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - To Which Are Added Some Poems Never before Printed (Paperback)
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Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - To Which Are Added Some Poems Never before Printed (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies, Volume 1
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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 1 covers the period 1765 to 1777.
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