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	James Boswell - MSN Encarta
		Boswell was born in Edinburgh, and educated at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Utrecht.
		Boswell was admitted to both the Scottish and English bars and practiced law but devoted himself primarily to the pursuit of a literary career.
		Boswell's accounts covered periods of daily association with Johnson in London and also described a trip that the two friends made through Scotland to the Hebrides in 1773.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557934/Boswell_James.html (307 words)

	Biography of James Boswell - at James Boswell - a guide
		James Boswell was born on October 29, 1740, probably in a house in Blair's Land, Parliament Close, the Edinburgh home of his parents Alexander and Euphemia Boswell.
		Boswell often frequented the playhouses in this period, and he mingled with high society (at Lord Eglinton's and Lady Northumberland's) and the litterati (at Sheridan's, Garrick's and Davies').
		Boswell was born near St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, and at the age of thirteen was sent to the city's University by his father to study law.
	www.jamesboswell.info /Biography.php (1158 words)

	James Boswell
		Born on October 29, 1740, in Edinburgh, Scotland, author James Boswell was the son of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, who was a judge in the supreme courts of Scotland.
		Boswell's mother, Euphemia Erskine, was a descendant of a minor branch of Scottish royalty.
		Boswell knew early in their relationship that he would write Johnson's biography, but in deference to his friend, he didn't start until after Johnson's death.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-102903-boswell.html (1206 words)

	Significant Scots - James Boswell
		James Boswell was the eldest son of Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck, and of Euphemia Erskine.
		James Boswell, father of Lord Auchinleck, had also been a Scottish barrister, and, as we learn from Lord Kames, one of the best of his time; his wife was a daughter of Alexander Bruce, second Earl of Kincardine, whose mother was Veronica, a daughter of the noble house of Sommelsdyk in Holland.
		Boswell, however, by the vivacity of his conversation, soon beguiled the doctor of his prejudices; and their intimacy was confirmed by a visit which he soon after paid to Johnson at his apartments in the Temple.
	www.electricscotland.com /History/other/boswell_james.htm (5622 words)

	James Boswell
		A Thomas Boswell (said upon doubtful evidence to have been a minstrel in the household of James IV) was killed at Flodden, and since 1513 the family had greatly improved its position in the world by intermarriage with the first Scots nobility.
		Boswell's freshness at the table of conversation gave a new zest to every maxim that Johnson enunciated, while Boswell developed a perfect genius for interpreting the kind of worldly philosophy at which Johnson was so unapproachable.
		Boswell is almost equally admirable as a reporter and as an interviewer, as a collector and as a researcher.
	www.nndb.com /people/256/000085001 (2116 words)

	James Boswell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boswell is also known for the detailed and frank journals that he wrote for long periods of his life, which remained undiscovered until the 1920s.
		Boswell had swarthy skin, fl hair, and dark eyes; he was of average height, and he tended to plumpness.
		Boswell was born near St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Boswell (1908 words)

	Ar Turas - James Boswell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		James Boswell (1740-1795) succeeded his father as the ninth Laird of Auchinleck (Ayrshire) in 1782.
		The son of a respected Judge, Boswell studied for the law and began practising in Edinburgh in 1766.
		After Johnson's death, Boswell started work on the biography which he called simply, The Life of Samuel Johnson; it was published in 1791.This was a new type of biography, filled with verbatim conversations that Johnson had held with Boswell and notable figures of the day.
	www.ar-turas.co.uk /Pages/writers/boswell.htm (278 words)

	Boswell, James Criticism and Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Boswell, whose religious leanings were at this time still tenuous, indulged in a wide-ranging social life in London, mingling in both low and high social circles and making the acquaintance of such literary celebrities as Laurence Sterne and David Garrick and consorting frequently with prostitutes, causing long-term damage to his health.
		Boswell left Utrecht in 1764 and embarked on a two-year tour of Europe, corresponding with his London and Edinburgh acquaintances while recording in a journal his experiences, changing surroundings, and successful attempts to meet and intellectually engage such luminaries as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, and Pasquale Paoli.
		Boswell had become obsessed with accurately recording for posterity the Johnson he came to know so well; and Johnson, greatly valuing Boswell's friendship and vivacity, and also greatly aware of his own abilities as a conversationalist, allowed the unusual arrangement to continue.
	www.enotes.com /literary-criticism/boswell-james (1993 words)

	A Life of James Boswell
		Boswell's pride over his ancestry was underlined every time he took a walk down to the ruins from the new mansion, or when he showed the Old Castle to friends or a potential wife.
		Old James, as we shall call him, a highly successful advocate who in the wake of the Revolution dedicated himself to no-nonsense Whig principles and to the successful aggrandizement of the estate, was once described to young James, his namesake, as a `big, strong, Gothic-looking man', a `man of weight' and courage.
		Boswell and his brothers must have relished the watchtower, gazing over miles of Auchinleck acreage and out to the Lanarkshire hills, imagining a wilder and more dangerous time when the Lowlands were particularly vulnerable to English raids.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/m/martin-boswell.html (3231 words)

	Free Essay James Boswell Biography
		James Boswell is a unique figure in English literature: a classic by virtue of the three masterpieces he published, he is also, in one sense, a contemporary (Collins 7).
		James Boswell was born in Edinburgh on October 29, 1740 (Collins 6).
		Boswell’s mother, Euphemia Erskire, was descended from a minor branch of Scottish royalty (“James Boswell (1740-1795)”).
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=30867 (1620 words)

	James Boswell Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		James Boswell was born in Edinburgh on Oct. 29, 1740.
		Boswell spent 9 months sight-seeing in Italy, and in the autumn of 1765 made a 6 weeks' tour of Corsica in order to interview Pasquale Paoli, the Corsican leader who was attempting to secure the island's freedom from Genoa.
		Boswell was a writer of genius, particularly in his finest type of writing--the record of what he had observed.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/james-boswell (1544 words)

	James Boswell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Boswell's father, Alexander Boswell, advocate and laird of Auchinleck in Ayrshire from 1749, was raised to the bench with the judicial title of Lord Auchinleck in 1754.
		The Boswells were anold and well-connected family, and James was subjected to the strong pressure of an ambitious family.
		Boswell hated the select day school to which he was sent at age 5, and from 8 to 13 he was taught at home by tutors.
	www.classic-literature.co.uk /scottish-authors/james-boswell (257 words)

	James Boswell Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
		Boswell was born in Edinburgh the son of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, a judge in the supreme courts of Scotland.
		Boswell's remaining years were mainly unhappy, his pursuit of a political career was unsuccessful, and he suffered from fits of depression and hypochondria.
		Boswell was aided by Edmund Malone (1741-1812), an Irish literary critic and Shakespearean scholar, who went over the final draft of Johnson's biography.
	www.litweb.net /biography/394/James_Boswell.html (670 words)

	James Boswell
		James Boswell was born in Edinburgh the son of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, who was a judge in the supreme courts of Scotland.
		Boswell had a phenomenal memory, he loved gossip, good conversation, liquor, travel, and he was a natural writer.
		Boswell moved to London, and although he was admitted to the English bar, he concentrated on the writing of The Life of Samuel Johnson.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /boswell.htm (1277 words)

	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Boswell was born in Edinburgh on 29th October 1740, the eldest son of Alexander and Euphemia Boswell.
		Boswell studied at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities, his father intending him for a career as an advocate, although his own ambitions were for a literary or a military career.
		He was persuaded that this James Boswell conversion, which would have precluded public office or professional advancement, was unwise and after a taste of the wilder side of London life returned home to his studies and continuing tension with his father.
	www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/boswedsw.htm (483 words)

	Boswell, James. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Admitted to the bar in 1766, he practiced throughout his life, but his true interest was in a literary career and in associating with the great men of his day.
		Boswell first met Samuel Johnson on a trip to London in 1763.
		The curious combination of Boswell’s own character (he was vainglorious, a heavy drinker, and a libertine) and his genius at biography have intrigued later critics, many of whom conclude that he is the greatest biographer in Western literature.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bo/Boswell.html (459 words)

	James Boswell - a guide
		When a great part of his personal papers were discovered in the 1920s, the world already knew him as the author of the much praised biography of Dr.
		Some of them are not all that well-known, and it is the aim of this website to create an index of all those people, so that the readers of Boswell can acquire an even better understanding of his life and of society from the 1760s and onwards.
		Boswell's Ancestors is a small table of 3 generations of his ancestors.
	www.jamesboswell.info (462 words)

	Life of James Boswell quiz -- free game
		James Boswell's greatest feat was his biography of one of his close friends.
		James Boswell's oldest surviving son was a poet, possibly with a somewhat greater talent for writing poetry than his father.
		In the spring of 1763 Boswell received an angry letter from this well known philosopher abusing him and his friends, Andrew Erskine and George Dempster, for having quoted parts of a private conversation they'd had with him, in their publication "Critical Strictures on Elvira".
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	WAG: Peter Martin's A Life of James Boswell
		James Boswell, the famous Samuel Johnson biographer, was vilified in the nineteenth century as "a great fool" (among other things).
		Then, remarkably, another large stash of Boswell papers was discovered in 1930 (it wouldn't be the last), and the book collector's efforts to gain control of the growing Boswell collection and publish it in a definitive edition (that would recoup at least some of his expenses) became maddening.
		It was clear to him as a boy, and was to become increasingly so over the next twenty-five years, that Johnson was engaged in a heroic struggle to conquer or at least control his melancholy and tendencies to madness.
	www.thewag.net /books/martin.htm (813 words)

	TomFolio.com: by James BOSWELL
		Boswell, James, 1740-1795 The Journal Of A Tour To The Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. By James Boswell, Esq.
		Boswell, James; Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennett, eds, preface, notes Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D Publisher: Literary Guild New York 1936.
		Boswell, James; Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennett, eds., preface/notes Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Publisher: Viking New York 1936.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=James_BOSWELL (1565 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Life of Samuel Johnson: Books: James Boswell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		James Boswell is for some the ideal scribe, for others a sycophantic toady.
		Boswell's purpose was to capture the essence of the man. Johnson was adept at articulating pithy remarks with surgical precision.
		Boswell was not the obvious choice to write the best biography about Samuel Johnson, much less one of the greatest biographies in world literature.
	www.amazon.ca /Life-Samuel-Johnson-James-Boswell/dp/0679417176 (1616 words)

	Amazon.com: A Life of James Boswell: Books: Peter Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In his monumental A Life of James Boswell, Peter Martin takes on the formidable task of writing the biographer's biography--of telling the story of a man whose numerous journals are renowned for their vivid evocation of his life and times.
		James Boswell's "Life of Johnson" is commonly regarded as the finest biography in the English language.
		Boswell was a libertine and at times a heavy drinker who, no matter how inebriated he became at the London Literary Club, where he listened to Garrick, Goldsmith, Burke, Reynolds and other brilliant men discuss the topics of the day, would race home to enter their conversation in his journal.
	www.amazon.com /Life-James-Boswell-Peter-Martin/dp/0300093128 (1745 words)

	james boswell home page
		James Boswell, painter, illustrator, political satirist was born in 1906 in Westport N.Z., came to England to study at the Royal Academy in 1925 and swiftly made his name as the foremost graphic artist of the radical left.
		A selection of James Boswell’s sketches and painting will be on display in the main hall of Tate Britain in June 2006.
		James Boswell: Unofficial War Artist will be published by The Muswell Press and launched on 9th November 2006.
	www.jboswell.info (303 words)

	James Boswell - World's Greatest Classic Books
		James Boswell was the oldest son and heir of a distinguished Scottish Judge, Lord Auchinleck.
		James also wanted to enter the army, but was dissuaded from doing so by his father.
		Boswell was known to spend most of his time socializing with army officers and young actors.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/quickstep/1103/boswell_james.htm (599 words)

	World of James Boswell
		This website has been created in an attempt to stimulate interest in James Boswell, the lesser known member of the team of Johnson and Boswell, 18th century men of letters.
		Boswell is worth studying because of his genius, as well as, his human weakness.
		Boswell is far from being the great moralist that Johnson was but spent his life attempting to accomplish the ordinary objectives while having as much pleasure as possible.
	www.geocities.com /sschaeff/WorldofJamesBoswell.htm (446 words)

	James Boswell Criticism
		In this essay, Yarrow analyzes Boswell's use of metaphor in the Life of Johnson, claiming that it reveals Boswell's effort to originate metaphors and maximize their use.
		In the essay that follows, Bell considers Boswell's London Journal to be a groundbreaking work in the development of the first-person factual narrative.
		He commends in particular Boswell's use of personal experience as a means of establishing his literary persona.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/James_Boswell (193 words)

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