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Dr Johnson S London
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Author : Liza Picard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-05-23
Dr Johnson S London written by Liza Picard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-23 with History categories.
'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd 'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' Observer When Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary in 1755, London was the biggest city in Europe. The opulence of the rich and the comfort of the 'middling' sort contrasted sharply with the back-breaking labour and pitiful wages of the poor. Executions were rated one of the best amusements, but there was bullock-hunting and cock-fighting too. Crime, from pickpockets to highwaymen, was rife, prisons were poisonous and law-enforcement rudimentary. Dr Johnson's London is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors: the streets, houses and gardens; cooking, housework, laundry and shopping; clothes and cosmetics; medicine, sex, hobbies, education and etiquette. The book spans the years 1740 to 1770, starting when the gin craze was gaining ground and ending when the east coast of America was still British. While brilliantly recording the strangeness and individuality of the past, Dr Johnson's London continually reminds us of parallels with the present day.
Dr Johnson S London
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Author : Dorothy Marshall
language : en
Publisher: New York : Wiley
Release Date : 1968
Dr Johnson S London written by Dorothy Marshall and has been published by New York : Wiley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Authors, English categories.
Dr Johnson S London
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Author : Liza Picard
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2014-01-28
Dr Johnson S London written by Liza Picard and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-28 with History categories.
An enthralling review of an exhilarating era, Dr. Johnson's London brilliantly records the strangeness and individuality of the past--and continually reminds us of parallels with the present day. The practical realities of everyday life are rarely described in history books. To remedy this, and to satisfy her own curiosity about the lives of our ancestors, Liza Picard immersed herself in contemporary sources - diaries and journals, almanacs and newspapers, government papers and reports, advice books and memoirs - to examine the substance of life in mid-18th century London. The fascinating result of her research, Dr. Johnson's London introduces the reader to every facet of that period: from houses and gardens to transport and traffic; from occupations and work to pleasure and amusements; from health and medicine to sex, food, and fashion. Stops along the way focus on education, etiquette, public executions as popular entertainment, and a melange of other historical curiosities. This book spans the period from 1740 to 1770--very much the city of Dr. Samuel Johnson, who published his great Dictionary in 1755. It starts when the gin craze was gaining ground and ends just before America ceased being a colony.
Dr Johnson S London
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Author : Liza Picard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Dr Johnson S London written by Liza Picard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with London (England) categories.
Daily Life In Johnson S London
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Author : Richard B. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1983
Daily Life In Johnson S London written by Richard B. Schwartz and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
"A rich, fascinating, enlightening if sometimes slightly terrifying tableau of real life in one of the world's most celebrated cities."--Los Angeles Times
London A Poem In Imitation Of The Third Satire Of Juvenal
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1738
London A Poem In Imitation Of The Third Satire Of Juvenal written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1738 with London (England) categories.
Samuel Johnson And The Theme Of Hope
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Author : T F Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1984-03-29
Samuel Johnson And The Theme Of Hope written by T F Wharton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-03-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Making Of Dr Johnson
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Author : John Wiltshire
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Making Of Dr Johnson written by John Wiltshire and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examines the process by which Samuel Johnson the man became 'Dr Johnson', the lexicographer whose reputation for scholarship, robustness and wit is inseparable.
Samuel Johnson
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Author : Peter Martin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-08-16
Samuel Johnson written by Peter Martin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
Dr Johnson And Mr Savage
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Author : Richard Holmes
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011-04-28
Dr Johnson And Mr Savage written by Richard Holmes and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
