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Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… Poem (London: W. Flexney, 1763), p. 3-4; James Ralph, The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade, Stated. With Regard to Booksellers, the Stage, and the Public. No Matter by Whom (London: R. Griffiths, 1758). 2 . Paul J. Korshin, ‘Types of … Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, over the patronage of his Dictionary. In 1746, Johnson was asked by a consortium of booksellers to create an authoritative dictionary of the English language. Though they agreed to pay him the substantial … Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 77. For Johnson, the booksellers had become the enablers of a project like the dictionary, and the author was paid as a consequence of a …
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Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… after her death is probably at least partly due to her habit of avoiding putting her name on the title-pages of the books she had authored or edited. Moreover, Berry did not write poems and novels but preferred the genres of history and … and people, landscapes and architecture she had encountered on her journeys, notes about visits to the theatre, and books she had read and discussed. While Berry herself remains in the background and rarely gives a voice to her emotions, … 13 . See a recent study: Jonathan David Gross, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014). 14 . For a recent fictional evaluation of their friendship, see Emma Donoghue, Life Mask (Orlando: …
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… Not only did she publish the Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (1785), and their correspondence in 1788, books which were widely read but for which she would be heavily criticized in the English press, but also an edition of …
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