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Dr Johnson and his women

Chisholm, Kate more...

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Non Fiction
BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography: literary
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 15/11/2011
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

RRP: $59.95
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When Samuel Johnson was in his late sixties, he told Boswell that he would like to spend the rest of his life 'driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman'. This teasing remark is at odds with the way we have come to think of Dr Johnson - as a strident, overbearing and far too clever conversationalist, a man who famously asserted that 'Women have all the liberty that they should wish to have'. In this revealing and fascinating book Kate Chisholm argues it is time to consider how Johnson lived his life, not just what he said. She proposes that the heart of the man, the truth of his character, can more clearly be seen via his many relationships with women.