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James Boswell

(1740—1795) lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson

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Boswell, James

Boswell, James (1740–1795)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

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2005
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
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1,185 words

(1740–1795), Scottish lawyer, diarist, and biographer. ...

Boswell was the eldest son of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, a

Boswell, James

Boswell, James   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

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Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Literature
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4,035 words
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Born in mid-eighteenth-century Edinburgh into an eminent legal and landed family, James Boswell (1740–1795) chafed against, without ever ...

Boswell, James

Boswell, James (1740–95)   Quick reference

World Encyclopedia

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
90 words

As a young man, he travelled widely in Europe, meeting Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. An inveterate hero-worshipper, Boswell found ...

Boswell, James

Boswell, James (1740–95)   Reference library

An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

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2009
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History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Literature
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240 words

(1740–95), ...

biographer. Boswell is most famous as the author of the Life of Johnson (1791),

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