Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… of intelligent women and had several long-standing and loyal female friends. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Celebrity Conversation Depression Clubs Fame Gender Unkempt, ungainly, uncouth, with appallingly gluttonous table … 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 professional writer, with publications, like his Rambler essays … and being sought out as a famous man are not the same as sociability. Johnson accepted the consequences of literary celebrity – and of notoriety – but he actively engaged in sociability, valuing it, even relying on it, not least when one …
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