Author: John Lawrence Abbott
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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John Hawkesworth
Author: John Lawrence Abbott
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. Sutton
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh
Author: Mervyn Austen Busteed
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The Caldwells were originally a Scottish episcopalian family who settled in the Enniskillen area during the early seventeenth-century Ulster Plantation. Later in the century they bought a somewhat isolated estate centred on the western and northern shores of Lower Lough Erne, renaming the dwelling house Castle Caldwell. Their remarkably comprehensive family archives demonstrate the sometimes contradictory political and economic forces bearing down on such Anglo-Irish families during the second half of the eighteenth century. Sir James, the fourth baronet, was the most energetic and active member of the family. He was simultaneously a loyal upholder of the British connection, the Protestant constitution and the rights of the Irish parliament. He maintained a voluminous correspondence with leading figures in the cultural and political life of the time, including Dr Samuel Johnson, David Garrick and Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder. As an enlightened 'improving' landlord he championed schemes for Irish economic development and, despite the difficult physical environment on his estate, he energetically experimented with tree planting, with flax cultivation, linen manufacture, crop rotations and selective livestock breeding. Issues underpinning the Protestant Ascendancy.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The Caldwells were originally a Scottish episcopalian family who settled in the Enniskillen area during the early seventeenth-century Ulster Plantation. Later in the century they bought a somewhat isolated estate centred on the western and northern shores of Lower Lough Erne, renaming the dwelling house Castle Caldwell. Their remarkably comprehensive family archives demonstrate the sometimes contradictory political and economic forces bearing down on such Anglo-Irish families during the second half of the eighteenth century. Sir James, the fourth baronet, was the most energetic and active member of the family. He was simultaneously a loyal upholder of the British connection, the Protestant constitution and the rights of the Irish parliament. He maintained a voluminous correspondence with leading figures in the cultural and political life of the time, including Dr Samuel Johnson, David Garrick and Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder. As an enlightened 'improving' landlord he championed schemes for Irish economic development and, despite the difficult physical environment on his estate, he energetically experimented with tree planting, with flax cultivation, linen manufacture, crop rotations and selective livestock breeding. Issues underpinning the Protestant Ascendancy.
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Author: John Rylands Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Author: John Rylands University Library of Manchester
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Boswell's Life of Johnson
Author: John A. Vance
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033376X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
When it first appeared in 1985, Boswell's Life of Johnson brought together the most recent and most lively assessments of the literary merit and historical accuracy of Boswell's biography. In an invigorating exchange placed at the center of the collection, Donald Greene's description of the Life as a fictionalized biography that screens the real, complex Johnson from view is challenged by Frederick Pottle's defense of Boswell's biographical method, of his sturdy compilation of detail that presents the factual rather than the fictional Johnson. Other essays explore the effect of Johnson's humor on the shaping of his image in the Life, the recent developments in literary criticism and the effect they have had on eighteenth-century studies, and the continuing interest of Boswell's Life as a showcase for members of Johnson's famous circle. The volume concludes with an assessment of the Boswellian problem--of the difficulties the Life presents to readers, scholars, and teachers.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033376X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
When it first appeared in 1985, Boswell's Life of Johnson brought together the most recent and most lively assessments of the literary merit and historical accuracy of Boswell's biography. In an invigorating exchange placed at the center of the collection, Donald Greene's description of the Life as a fictionalized biography that screens the real, complex Johnson from view is challenged by Frederick Pottle's defense of Boswell's biographical method, of his sturdy compilation of detail that presents the factual rather than the fictional Johnson. Other essays explore the effect of Johnson's humor on the shaping of his image in the Life, the recent developments in literary criticism and the effect they have had on eighteenth-century studies, and the continuing interest of Boswell's Life as a showcase for members of Johnson's famous circle. The volume concludes with an assessment of the Boswellian problem--of the difficulties the Life presents to readers, scholars, and teachers.
Letters of David Hume to William Strahan
Author: David Hume
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Book Auction Records
Author: Frank Karslake
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
The Making of Dr. Johnson
Author: John Wiltshire
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Examines the process by which Samuel Johnson the man became 'Dr Johnson', the lexicographer whose reputation for scholarship, robustness and wit is inseparable.
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Examines the process by which Samuel Johnson the man became 'Dr Johnson', the lexicographer whose reputation for scholarship, robustness and wit is inseparable.