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James Boswell (1740-1795) - advocate, traveller, journalist, Scotsman and author of that most amazing book, the Life of Johnson. This site is dedicated to the life of James Boswell!

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Website under improvement

Ever since I launched the new version of jamesboswell.info, parts of the site have been somewhat lacking in usability. There are two reasons for this: 1) This is a spare time occupation of mine,...

Anniversary of a melancholy event

The middle of May is, I think, always an emotional time for Boswellians. On May 16 we celebrate the joyous occasion of the first meeting between James Boswell and Samuel Johnson in 1763 - and...

Happy biographer's day

Today is biographer's day, the 247th anniversary of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson's first meeting, which took place on this day in 1763 at Thomas Davies' bookshop near Covent Garden, London....

Obituary: Charles Frick

Charles Frick, former professor of literature at Princeton, director of the Morgan Library and later of the Frick Collection died Friday, March 26 2010 at the age of 81.

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Boswell and Johnson: Different in a thousand complementary ways

I (very) recently came across Phillip Baruth's excellent thriller "The Brothers Boswell", a fictional account of James Boswell's...

Boswell in fiction

I would like to compile a list of Boswell in fiction, and I need your help.

There are numerous references to Boswell in works of...

1857 letters to Temple

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I was so pleased to find this site. I had sometimes tried to find a Boswell society online, with no result. I came...

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