Let us breakfast in splendour
Charles Nicholl: Francis Barber, 16 July 2015
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir
by Michael Bundock.
Yale, 282 pp., £20, May 2015,978 0 300 20710 1 Show More
by Michael Bundock.
Yale, 282 pp., £20, May 2015,
“... after-dinner debris. From left to right they are James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Pasquale Paoli, Charles Burney, Thomas Warton and Oliver Goldsmith. Their names appear below the image, cursively engraved, appositely placed: one might almost be looking at a signed group photograph of 18th-century luminaries. In ... ”
