Samuel Johnson

Author and lexicographer; famous man of letters, friend of Hester Thrale Piozzi, James Boswell, Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, and Charlotte Lennox; author of The Rambler (1750–1752), A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland (1775), and Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–1781).

Full Name Samuel Johnson
Variant Names Dr. Johnson
Gender Male
Birth Date 1709
Death Date 1784
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Beinecke Osborn c83

Title Untitled
Period 1761-1790 , 1791-1820
Archive Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Role: Major author

Beinecke Osborn fc132

Title Poems on Several Occasions; Collected from D [...]
Period 1761-1790 , 1791-1820
Archive Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Role: Major author

Folger MS M.a.182

Title A miscellaneous collection in prose and vers [...]
Period 1791-1820
Archive Folger Shakespeare Library

Role: Major author

Houghton MS Eng 1280

Title Poems on several occasions with introductory [...]
Period 1791-1820
Archive Houghton Library

Role: Major author