JAMES BOSWELL
July/August 2015
The youthful indiscretions of Johnson's biographer
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December 2013
‘At the TV debate it was burkas and niqabs all round. It wasn’t easy when someone made a point because no one knew where to look’
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December 2013
Boswell fastidiously kept records of his drinking, and they reveal him to be an imbiber for all ages
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November 2011
The biographer of Dr Johnson's gift to posterity was to establish the latter as one of English literature's towering figures
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