Boswell’s Bowels
Neal Ascherson, 20 December 1984
James Boswell: The Later Years 1769-1795
by Frank Brady.
Heinemann, 609 pp., £20, November 1984,0 434 08530 8 Show More
by Frank Brady.
Heinemann, 609 pp., £20, November 1984,
“... journals and letters and papers came to light and were published, in that long treasure-hunt which began in 1927 at Malahide in Ireland, so most of the disparaging myths about him progressively fell away. After his death in 1795, it was said that he was so effectively locked out of good society after the publication of the Life of Johnson ... ”