![]() His written works focus chiefly on others, but he was admitted as a good companion and accomplished conversationalist in his own right. ![]() His journals also record meetings and conversations with eminent individuals belonging to The Club, including Lord Monboddo, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith. These included voluminous notes on the grand tour of Europe that he took as a young nobleman and, subsequently, of his tour of Scotland with Johnson. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer.īoswell 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, who is best known as Samuel Johnson’s biographer, inherited his father’s estate Auchinleck in Ayrshire. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D,Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Published by Wentworth Press, United States, 2019. Boswell's mother was a strict Calvinist, and he felt that his father was cold to him. Life of Johnson, Including Boswells Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnsons Diary of a (Paperback) James Boswell. ![]() He was the eldest son of a judge, Alexander Boswell, 8th Laird of Auchinleck and his wife Euphemia Erskine, Lady Auchinleck. James Boswell, 10th Laird of Auchinleck and 1st Baronet was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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