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    Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals of Scotland: The Creation of the Romantic Author by Gillian Beattie-Smith

    Published 2021-06-01
    “…The increase in popularity of the Home Tour in the 19th century and the publication of many journals, diaries, and guides of tours of Scotland by, such as, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, led to the perception of Scotland as a literary tour destination. …”
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    Biblical Citations as a Stylistic Standard in Johnson’s and Webster’s Dictionaries by Cynthia L. Hallen, Tracy B. Spackman

    Published 2010-10-01
    “…Noah Webster’s primary source for the first edition of the 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language (ADEL) was Samuel Johnson’s 1799 eighth edition of the Dictionary of the English Language (DEL). …”
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    Virginia Woolf’s “New School of Biographies” and Eighteenth-century Life-Writing: a Sense of Kinship by Maryam Thirriard

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…At the same time, her essay provides a lengthy history of the genre and Woolf takes her readers back in time to Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, connecting him to the New Biographers and their narrative techniques. …”
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    Joseph Browne: Literature and Politics in Early Eighteenth Century England by Katarzyna Kozak

    Published 2019-09-01
    “…One critic, Howard Weinbrot, in his study on Samuel Johnson, acknowledged Browne as the author of the poem “The Gothick Hero” (so far only accredited to Browne) and associated his political views with support for the Hanoverian dynasty that ascended the British throne in 1714. …”
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    The Art and life of Alàgbà Fálétí – A Pic torial, Art and Artifacts Exhibition in Honor of Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí (1921- 2017) curated by Akinsola Adejuwon and Seyi Ogunjobi... by Akinsola Adejuwon

    Published 2021-12-01
    “…Hence, we could imagine that the childhood of Alàgbà Fálétí was not radically different from Samuel Johnson’s description of features of Yorùbá childhood as characterised by ‘freedom’ (Johnson: 2009, pp.98-100). …”
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