Author:James Boswell (1740-1795)

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James Boswell
(1740–1795)

Portrait of James Boswell by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Works

• Dorando, a Spanish Tale (1767, anonymously)
• An Account of Corsica (1768) (transcription project)
• The Hypochondriack (1777-1783, a monthly series in the London Magazine)
• "The Riot" (c.1780, a poem about the Gordon Riots)
• The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. (1785) (external scan)
• The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
  • 1904 Edition
    • Volume 1 (transcription project)
    • Volume 2 (transcription project)
    • Volume 3 (transcription project)
    • Volume 4 (transcription project)
    • Volume 5 (transcription project)
    • Volume 6 (transcription project)

• No Abolition of Slavery (1791 poem) Project Gutenberg

Published journals

• Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763
• Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, including his correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (ZeÌlide)
• Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764
• Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy,Corsica, and France, 1765-1766
• Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766-1769 (external scan)
• Boswell for the Defence, 1769-1774
• Boswell: the Ominous Years, 1774-1776
• Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778
• Boswell: Laird of Auchinleck , 1778-1782
• Boswell, the Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785
• Boswell, the English Experiment, 1785-1789
• Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789-1795

Works about Boswell

• "Boswell on His Own Hook" (1926), an essay by Stuart Pratt Sherman
• 'Mr James Boswell', noted in The Confessions of William-Henry Ireland (1805)
• "Boswell, James (1740-1795)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Boswell, James," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 4) (1878)
• "Boswell, James," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Boswell, James," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Boswell, James," by Thomas Seccombe in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Boswell, James," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Boswell, James," in A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen, (ed.) by Thomas Thomson, Glasgow: Blackie and Son (1857, 2nd edition) in 9 vols.