Edial

He now removed to London with Mrs. Johnson; but her daughter, who had lived with them at Edial, was left with her relations in the country.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

An advertisement appeared in the papers, "At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by Samuel Johnson."

English Literature for Boys and Girls

Had the Edial Boarding-school turned out well, we had never heard of Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson had been a fat schoolmaster and dogmatic gerundgrinder, and never known that he was more.

Paras. 25-49 1909

Mrs. Johnson was the widow of a Birmingham draper, and brought her husband several hundred pounds, part of which was at once spent in hiring and furnishing a large house at Edial near Lichfield where

Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897

The first eighteen months of his married life he lived quite in the country at Edial, two miles from Lichfield.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Marries Mrs. Porter and opens a school at Edial, i. 95, n.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

He now removed to London with Mrs. Johnson; but her daughter, who had lived with them at Edial, was left with her relations in the country [1].

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

“At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages by Samuel Johnson.”

Samuel Johnson Leslie, Stephen 1878

Failing in his attempt at Edial, he was disposed once more to engage in the drudgery of an usher, and offered himself in that capacity to the Rev. William Budworth, master of the grammar-school at Brewood, in Staffordshire, celebrated for having been the place in which Bishop Hurd received his education, under that master.

Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

Academy at Edial, or a writer for the London booksellers, — in all his poverty and toil, and in all his success, — while he was walking the streets without a shilling to buy food, or when the greatest men of England were proud to feast him at their table, — still that heavy and remorseful thought came back to him: — "I was cruel to my poor father in his illness!"

True Stories of History and Biography Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834