Self-Hugging
Andrew O’Hagan: A Paean to Boswell, 5 October 2000
Boswell's Presumptuous Task
by Adam Sisman.
Hamish Hamilton, 352 pp., £17.99, November 2000,0 241 13637 7 Show More
by Adam Sisman.
Hamish Hamilton, 352 pp., £17.99, November 2000,
James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: Research Edition: Vol. II
edited by Bruce Redford and Elizabeth Goldring.
Edinburgh, 303 pp., £50, February 2000,0 7486 0606 8 Show More
edited by Bruce Redford and Elizabeth Goldring.
Edinburgh, 303 pp., £50, February 2000,
Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author
by Lawrence Lipking.
Harvard, 372 pp., £11.50, March 2000,0 674 00198 2 Show More
by Lawrence Lipking.
Harvard, 372 pp., £11.50, March 2000,
“... garrets, would, by the standards of today, bring a blush to the cheek of the Almighty.According to Liza Picard, London was home to over 10 per cent of England’s population, 650,000 souls, who lived in streets clotted with ‘a rich, glutinous mixture of animal manure, dead cats and dogs, ashes, straw and human excrement’. Half the population of ... ”
