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James BoswellScottish biographer, lawyer, and ninth Laird of Auchinleck James Boswell was born in Edinburgh. His biography of his friend and more senior colleague, the English author Samuel Johnson, is best known and is regarded as the best biography ever writtenin the English language. Boswell began his studies at the University of Edinburgh's arts program when he was thirteen years old which he attended from 1753 to 1758. Though he experienced a significant depression halfway but fully recovered. He was transferred to the University of Glasgow to complete his studies after turning nineteen, where he heard lectures by Adam Smith. Boswell made the decision to become a Catholic monk while he was still in Glasgow. In February 1766, Boswell traveled back to London with Rousseau's lover, with whom he briefly had an affair while on the road. On November 25, 1769, Boswell wed his cousin Margaret Montgomerie. Boswell urged the Home Secretary to assist four Botany Bay escapees, including Mary Bryant, in obtaining royal pardons in 1792. Due to a venereal condition and years of heavy drinking, his health started to deteriorate during this period. On May 19, 1795, Boswell passed away in London. His body was laid to rest in the crypt of the Boswell family mausoleum in Ayrshire. Read More Read Less

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
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Boswell's Life of Johnson; Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
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Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch (1763)
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Life of Samuel Johnson
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Life of Samuel Johnson
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Boswell's Life Of Johnson; In Six Volumes, Life 1776-1780
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Boswell's Johnson
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No Abolition of Slavery; Or the Universal Empire of Love
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Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D and the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides; Volume V
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Life of Samuel Johnson
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Scots Magazine; Volume 19
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Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare
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