… the celebrity he gradually gained by a lifetime of work as a professional writer, with publications, like his Rambler essays between 1750 and 1752, his edition of the works of Shakespeare in 1765, and above all his Dictionary of the …
… in Bill Bulman and Freddy Dominguez (dirs.), Political and Religious Practice in the Early Modern British World: Essays in Honour of Peter Lake (Manchester: Manchester University Press, c. 2022), p. 158-78; Brian Cowan, ‘Life and …