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Dr Johnson

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Interviews and Recollections (IR)

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Appearance and Habits

    1. Johnson and Reynolds

      • James Northcote
      Pages 41-50
    2. Johnson and Dr Burney

      • Madame D’Arblay
      Pages 50-55
    3. Cradock is ‘landed’

      • Joseph Cradock
      Pages 55-59
    4. A Visit to Johnson

      • Sarah More
      Pages 59-60
    5. ‘His intellectual storehouse’

      • Richard Cumberland
      Pages 60-61
    6. Anecdotes of Johnson

      • Various Sources
      Pages 61-64
    7. Dr Johnson at the Chelsea China Manufactory

      • Thomas Faulkner
      Pages 64-65
    8. Perambulating with Johnson

      • Wickins
      Pages 65-66
  2. The Streatham Years

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
    2. Life at Streatham I

      • Hester Lynch Thrale
      Pages 69-84
    3. Life at Streatham II

      • Thomas Campbell
      Pages 84-88
    4. Life at Streatham III

      • Fanny Burney
      Pages 88-100
    5. Life at Streatham IV

      • Hester Lynch Piozzi
      Pages 101-107
    6. Life at Streatham V

      • Frances Reynolds
      Pages 107-112
  3. Travelling with Johnson

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Oxford, Cambridge, Aberdeen

      • Thomas Tyers
      Pages 115-116
    3. Cambridge (1765)

      • B. N. Turner
      Pages 116-122
    4. Scotland (1773)

      • James Boswell
      Pages 123-130
    5. Shrewsbury and Birmingham (1774)

      • Hester Lynch Thrale
      Pages 130-131
    6. France I (1775)

      • Hester Lynch Thrale
      Pages 131-132

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Nottingham, UK

    Norman Page

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