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Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr Johnson’s ‘Dear Mistress’
by Ian McIntyre.
Constable, 450 pp., £25, November 2008,978 1 84529 449 6 Show More
by Ian McIntyre.
Constable, 450 pp., £25, November 2008,
“... health’ when Johnson first came to Streatham after the Thrales found him ‘on his knees before John Delap, an Anglican clergyman and minor playwright, “beseeching God to continue him in the use of his understanding”’ in terms so ‘pathetic’ that Henry Thrale ‘involuntarily lifted up one hand to shut his mouth, from provocation at hearing a man ... ”