… until his death in 1784, Johnson’s name was virtually synonymous with sociability within the intellectual and cultural circles of London. Part of the reason for this was the celebrity he gradually gained by a lifetime of work as a …
… in The Provok’d Husband spoke with polished London accents ‘as if they had conversed with none but the politest circles of the bon ton ’ though they ought to have spoken broad Yorkshire dialect like their male counterparts, because …