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May 21, 2021
in Literature

Samuel Johnson on Endings

May 21, 2021
in Literature

This year Yale University Press published Samuel Johnson, a diverse and accessible selected works of eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters. The following excerpt is a section from one of Johnson’s pseudonymous essays in the publication Rambler. This quality of looking forward into futurity seems the unavoidable condition of a

November 16, 2011
in History, Humanities

A New Tour of Georgian London’s Fleet Street Shows Its Mixed Race American Side

November 16, 2011
in History, Humanities

Julie Flavell, author of When London Was Capital of America and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, takes you on a unique walk of Georgian London in the days when southern American visitors were bringing a mixed race look to the neighborhood. “What Dr Johnson Knew” Julie Flavell— “How is