James Boswell

This delightful evening takes the form of a conversation between the great 18th-century lexicographer, essayist and poet and his friend James Boswell.

A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson | review 2011

Ian Redford, who has previous form playing the sometimes grumpy Dr Johnson in A Laughing Matter, plays the man of letters and Russell Barr plays characters including Johnson's biographer, James Boswell, painter Joshua Reynolds, and Johnson's unrequited love.

This week's new theatre 2011

I pored over detailed 18th and 19th century maps of London, retracing the steps of Sherlock Holmes, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, and Jack the Ripper.

England, My England (Never Having Been There) Alan Bradley 2011

Writers and scholars from the eighteenth-century biographer James Boswell to the French anthropologist Claude LéviStrauss have suggested that cooking makes us human.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

Writers and scholars from the eighteenth-century biographer James Boswell to the French anthropologist Claude LéviStrauss have suggested that cooking makes us human.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

Mr. Ryskamp, who died Friday at age 81, wrote well-received books on 18th century British literature, including studies of the poet William Cowper and the diarist James Boswell.

A Scholar of Literature Immersed in Art Stephen Miller 2010

Mr. Ryskamp, who died Friday at age 81, wrote well-received books on 18th century British literature, including studies of the poet William Cowper and the diarist James Boswell.

A Scholar of Literature Immersed in Art Stephen Miller 2010

The biographer of Dr. Johnson, James Boswell, once quoted Reynolds as saying “the reason he would never marry was that every woman whom he liked had grown indifferent to him, and he had been glad he did not marry her.”

Archive 2010-03-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

Mr. Ryskamp, who died Friday at age 81, wrote well-received books on 18th century British literature, including studies of the poet William Cowper and the diarist James Boswell.

A Scholar of Literature Immersed in Art Stephen Miller 2010

These days, anyone with an iPhone can be his own YouTube James Boswell.

Oldies and Goodies Onscreen 2010