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Boswell, James

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  1. An eighteenth-century Scottish author, best known for his Life of Samuel Johnson.

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Boswell has become a general term for a biographer: “James Joyce found his Boswell in Richard Ellmann.”

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Boswell, James, i. 234-5, 319; his "Life of Dr. Johnson," ii.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

Boswell, James, xx, lx, 318, 322, 325, 335 Boswell, James, the younger, 316.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol

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