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Derek Jarrett is Editor of the Yale edition of Horace Walpole’s Memoirs. His edition of The Memoirs of the Reign of George III will be published later this year. (March 1999)
The Doctor’s Prescription
Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author
by Lawrence Lipking
Samuel Johnson
by W. Jackson Bate
March 18, 1999 issue
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Henry Fielding: A Life
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New Essays by Henry Fielding: His Contributions to the Craftsman (1734–1739) and Other Early Journalism
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Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795
edited by Marlies K. Danziger, edited by Frank Brady
Boswell's London Journal, 1762–1763
by James Boswell
Boswell in Holland, 1763–1764
by James Boswell
Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764
by James Boswell
Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765–1766
by James Boswell
Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766–1769
by James Boswell
Boswell for the Defence, 1769–1774
by James Boswell
Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1773
by James Boswell
Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774–1776
by James Boswell
Boswell in Extremes, 1776–1778
by James Boswell
Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778–1782
by James Boswell
Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782–1785
by James Boswell
Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785–1789
by James Boswell
Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795
by James Boswell
April 26, 1990 issue
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