… Samuel Johnson. He enjoyed, too, the company of intelligent upper-class women in terms of sociability rather than for sexual pleasure. He was a depressive, often connected to his excessive drinking, which placed a limit on his capacity for sociability. People > Art and Literature Keywords Alcohol Depression Charm Manners Sex Boswell, who was born into a Scottish Presbyterian legal and landowning family in 1740, suffered all his life from … the kind of sociability that was possible from it changed the further down the social scale he went. Few if any of his sexual relationships were with women of the highest social class. With such women his expectations were similar to the …