James Boswell
Date Submitted: 08/30/2004 04:41:30
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 1 pages (299 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 1 pages (299 words)
Best remembered today as friend and biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson, Boswell was an extraordinary figure of
eighteenth-century society. Vain yet good-natured, foolish yet charming, he was also conceited and a hypochondriac with a
drinking problem. He forced himself upon eminent people, and bragged about the great men he knew. David Hume thought him a
bit crazy. Yet for years Boswell moved in the same circles as Sheridan, Goldsmith, Rousseau, Voltaire and Walpole. And he …
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…in James's Court, Lawnmarket, in 1773 when the great man arrived in Edinburgh to begin their
famous journey to the Hebrides. Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was not published until 1786, a year after Johnson's
death. His Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, was an immediate success.
A perceptive observer blessed with a retentive memory, Boswell's narrative has dramatic power. These gifts and his industry have
given us an incomparable picture of his times.
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