James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Joshua Reynolds, ‘James Boswell’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 4452, 1785. Abstract After a restricted childhood, Boswell as a young man broke out to become a hard-drinking … once exiled in England, became lifelong friends and were pleased to see him often during his annual spring visits to London from Edinburgh. Through Johnson in particular, Boswell became friends with a set of men he might not otherwise … Scottish nobility, were already part of Boswell’s circle, and would remain so – indeed, he even contrived a dinner in London in May 1776 that brought Johnson and Wilkes, the bitterest of political rivals, together in an atmosphere of …
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