Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Samuel ... - 9781108059961

Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.To Which Are Added Some Poems Never before Printed\nAuthor(s): Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108059961, 978-1108059961\nSynopsis\nOne of the most celebrated individuals of English literature, Samuel Johnson [tel] was a defining figure of his age. In addition to his celebrated labours as a lexicographer, Johnson distinguished himself as a poet, essayist, critic, biographer and editor. The writer and society hostess Hester Lynch Piozzi [tel] was an unconventional woman of great intellectual vivacity. She became a close friend of Johnson, whom she met through her first husband, the brewer Henry Thrale, whose ailing business Johnson did much to support. As well as writing essays, poetry, memoirs and travel diaries, she was one of the first women to produce works on philology and history. First published in 178.