“The Unnarrated Life: Samuel Johnson and Women’s Writing.” Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After. Editor, Philip Smallwood. Bucknell University Press: 2001.
"When we turn away from Boswell to the scattered but copious body of Johnsonian memoir and biography, we consistently encounter an individual who has a talent for intimate, Platonic friendship with women – a demanding mentor, collaborator, and editor, whose rigor was a form of respect and who encouraged women to stake their claim in eighteenth-century literary society."
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