Samuel Johnson - Wretched un-idea'd girls.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

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Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Charles Dilly, 1791.

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About the Author

Samuel Johnson

Born: September 18, 1709
Died: December 13, 1784
Nationality: English
Profession: Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Moralist, Literary Critic, Biographer, Editor, Lexicographer

Biography

Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".

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