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James Boswell

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Gender Male
Death228 years ago
Date of birth October 29,1740
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Date of died May 19,1795
DiedLondon
United Kingdom
Spouse Margaret Boswell
Job Lawyer
Author
Biographer
Education Utrecht University
The University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
Full nameJames Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck
Children Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet
Veronica Boswell
Parents Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck
Grandchildren Theresa Boswell
Sir James Boswell of Auchinleck, 2nd Bt.
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Date of Upd.
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London Journal
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
An Account of Corsica
A Journey to the Western Islands
Boswell in Holland 1763-1764
Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782
Boswell on the Grand Tour
Dorando, a Spanish tale
The journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795
Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell
Boswell, the Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785
Boswell's Edinburgh journals, 1767-1786
Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766-1769
Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson V1
Boswell: the ominous years, 1774-1776
Boswell's Correspondence With the Honourable Andrew Erskine and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
Boswell for the defence, 1769-1774
Boswell's Book of Bad Verse: (a Verse Self-portrait) : Or, Love Poems and Other Verses : Now First Published from the Original Autograph Ms
Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778
James Boswell: The Journal of His German and Swiss Travels, 1764
No Abolition of Slavery, Or The Universal Empire of Love: A Poem
Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795
Johnson's Table Talk: A Selection of His Main Topics and Opinions Taken from Boswell's Life
Selections from James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Chosen and Edited by R. W. Chapman
The Cub, at Newmarket: a Tale
The conversations of Dr. Johnson
The heart of Boswell
Anecdotes of the Learned Pig: With Notes Critical [and] Explanatory and Illustrations
Meeting Dr. Johnson
The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
The correspondence and other papers of James Boswell relating to the making of the Life of Johnson
The Hypochondriack: Being the Seventy Essays by the Celebrated Biographer, James Boswell, Appearing in the London Magazine, from November, 1777, to August, 1783, and Here First Reprinted
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Part II: Index (L-Z), Dicta Philosophi
Boswell's Life of Johnson. Volume V. Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey Into North Wales (1774)
The Essential Boswell: Selections from the Writings of James Boswell
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica, Reprinted from the Original Ed. Edited with a Pref.
An Ode to Tragedy. By a Gentleman of Scotland
The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb: Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-3: Now First Published from the Original Manuscript
Everybody's Boswell: Being The Life of Samuel Johnson
Letters
The general correspondence of James Boswell, 1757-1763
A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Abridged and Edited With an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
Correspondence with Erskine and A Tour to Corsica
An Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady: With an Epistle from Menalcas to Lycidas. To which are Prefixed, Three Critical Recommendatory Letters
The Correspondence of James Boswell and John Johnston of Grange
The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone
Life of Samuel Johnson
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James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary, the English writer Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.

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