Dr Johnsons London

Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 146686348X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Johnson's London written by Liza Picard and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling review of an exhilarating era, Dr. Johnson's London brilliantly records the strangeness and individuality of the past--and continually reminds us of parallels with the present day. The practical realities of everyday life are rarely described in history books. To remedy this, and to satisfy her own curiosity about the lives of our ancestors, Liza Picard immersed herself in contemporary sources - diaries and journals, almanacs and newspapers, government papers and reports, advice books and memoirs - to examine the substance of life in mid-18th century London. The fascinating result of her research, Dr. Johnson's London introduces the reader to every facet of that period: from houses and gardens to transport and traffic; from occupations and work to pleasure and amusements; from health and medicine to sex, food, and fashion. Stops along the way focus on education, etiquette, public executions as popular entertainment, and a melange of other historical curiosities. This book spans the period from 1740 to 1770--very much the city of Dr. Samuel Johnson, who published his great Dictionary in 1755. It starts when the gin craze was gaining ground and ends just before America ceased being a colony.

Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780226497
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr Johnson's London written by Liza Picard and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd 'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' Observer When Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary in 1755, London was the biggest city in Europe. The opulence of the rich and the comfort of the 'middling' sort contrasted sharply with the back-breaking labour and pitiful wages of the poor. Executions were rated one of the best amusements, but there was bullock-hunting and cock-fighting too. Crime, from pickpockets to highwaymen, was rife, prisons were poisonous and law-enforcement rudimentary. Dr Johnson's London is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors: the streets, houses and gardens; cooking, housework, laundry and shopping; clothes and cosmetics; medicine, sex, hobbies, education and etiquette. The book spans the years 1740 to 1770, starting when the gin craze was gaining ground and ending when the east coast of America was still British. While brilliantly recording the strangeness and individuality of the past, Dr Johnson's London continually reminds us of parallels with the present day.

Author : Dorothy Marshall
Publisher : New York : Wiley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Johnson's London written by Dorothy Marshall and published by New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007386788
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr Johnson and Mr Savage written by Richard Holmes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book London: a Poem, in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liza Picard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr Johnson's London written by Liza Picard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liz Workman
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847829705
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Johnson's Doorknob written by Liz Workman and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind every great man are his objects and daily possessions, defined as much by the minutiae of domesticity as by the great works of the man himself.Dr. Johnson’s Doorknob, inspired by Liz Workman’s National Heritage Revisited series published in England in 2002, is a situationist’s catalog of overlooked and highly amusing personal objects from the most famous households in history. From the mantelpieces in the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the crockery in Washington Irving’s Sunnyside home and the banisters in the William Morris Gallery, Workman peeked over the velvet ropes and turned an ironic eye on some of the most important historic homes in England and America. Each of the nine chapters in this charming, slipcased package is an anthology in itself, a collection of photographs that celebrate the unsung features of “great” men’s homes: there are door handles and banisters from the hallways of Charles Dickens and Jules Ver≠ the ashtray that held Freud’s cigarette butts; and chairs sat on by Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Jefferson. From her photos of Washington’s four-poster to John Keats’s desk chair and Winston Churchill’s floral prints,Dr. Johnson’s Doorknobbreathes new life into the inhabitants of these homes.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Hitchings
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9781429928946
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defining the World written by Henry Hitchings and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear - magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain's colonies - including, crucially, America. Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, Defining the World is the story of Johnson's heroic endeavor, 250 years after the first publication of the Dictionary. In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure - his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London, and The Vanity of Human Wishes written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: