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Boswell, James
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The biographer of Johnson, born at Edinburgh, showed early a penchant for writing and an admiration for literary men; fell in with Johnson on a visit to London in 1763, and conceived for him the most devoted regard; made a tour with him to the Hebrides in 1773, the "Journal" of which he afterwards published; settled in London, and was called to the English bar; succeeded, in 1782, to his father's estate, Auchinleck, in Ayrshire, with an income of £1600 a year. Johnson dying in 1784, Boswell's "Life" of him appeared five years after, a work unique in biography, and such as no man could have written who was not a hero-worshipper to the backbone. He succumbed in the end to intemperate habits, aggravated by the death of his wife (1740-1795).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Boswell, James'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/boswell-james.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Boswell, James'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/boswell-james.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
