Word: thrale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light is shed on the Boswell- Johnson-Thrale group and its domestic difficulties by a rare volume of Boswell's "Life of Johnson" fully and acidly annotated by Johnson's friend Mrs. Thrale, later Mrs. Piozzi. (It was on the occasion of her taking this name that Johnson wrote his famous latter beginning, "If I interpret your letter right, your are ignominiously married...
...clear from the note, "I thought him a clever and comical Follow," and in another place she writes, "Curiosity carried Boswell further than it over carried any Mortal breathing." In retaliation to Boswell's statement that he was not pleased with the great Doctor's intimacy with the Thrale family, and the restraint which it imposed on him, Mrs. Thrale retorted in the margin. "What Restraint can he mean? Johnson kept everybody else under Restraint...
...QUEENEY LETTERS?Edited by the Marquis of Lansdowne?Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Letters, some hitherto unpublished, to "Queeney" Thrale from Fanny Burney, Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi and Dr. Samuel Johnson...