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Author: Beryl Bainbridge
First Published: 2001
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: 1764-1811
Setting: London and Southwark, England; France
Principal Characters: Samuel Johnson, Hester Thrale, Queeney
Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
Subjects: Girls, Memory, Mothers, France or French people, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Friendship, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Eighteenth century, London, Depression, mental
Locales: France, London, England

When Samuel Johnson died in 1784, the race was on to publish biographies of the poet, biographer, critic, and lexicographer whose personality and prose helped to set the literary style of his age. Johnson had attained a towering reputation with his monumental Dictionary of the English Language (2 vols., 1755), his edition of Shakespeare (8 vols., 1765), and most of all his multivolume Lives of the Poets (10 vols., 1779-1781), which propounded his theory of biography: “To judge right of an author we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of...

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