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Samuel Johnson

June 2022

  • Samuel Johnson's birthplace museum

    Hidden Histories
    Wit, wisdom and better than Wordle: why you should visit Dr Johnson’s birthplace museum

    You don’t need to have tired of London to enjoy this attraction celebrating the great lexicographer in his home town of Lichfield

August 2021

  • Bald Eagles<br>This Tuesday, March 15, 2016 photo, shows a bald eagle with one of it’s chicks in their nest, captured by a robotic camera in Sauces Canyon on Santa Cruz Island, Calif. Two bald eagle chicks have hatched in a nest high in a tree in California’s Channel Islands National Park. Park officials say the first egg hatched Saturday and the second bird poked its head out of its shell Monday in Sauces Canyon on Santa Cruz Island. Officials say it’s the first successful hatch after three years of attempts for the parents. (explore.org via AP)

    Crossword blog
    Crossword blog: the many pronunciations of ‘garage’ and ‘eyrie’

    We look at words with multiple pronunciations and share distractions in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues

June 2020

  • No danger of this fading into the background ... Damien Hirst’s Verity; and a sculpture of Samuel Johnson’s cat Hodge.

    The 10 best statues in Britain – chosen by our critic

    There’s more to British statues than the ones of Colston and Rhodes highlighted by BLM. From Damien Hirst’s sword-fighter to a cat called Hodge, our critic picks his top 10

March 2020

  • Ian McKellen as Coriolanus in 1984

    Hail, Coriolanus! The greatness of Shakespeare's shape-shifting epic

    From Olivier’s strangled fury to Ralph Fiennes’ Oedipal embraces, this complex political play is extraordinarily flexible

November 2019

  • Students at London Metropolitan University

    The revival of his forgotten Ottoman play shows Dr Johnson isn’t just a dead white male

    Jerry Brotton
    The staging of his only play, set in 15th-century Constantinople, allows a fresh conversation about decolonising English literature, says author Jerry Brotton

October 2018

  • Madame Bovary<br>Picture Shows: Emma Bovary (FRANCES O'CONNOR). FRANCES O'CONNOR stars as the beautiful adultress Emma Bovary in a new BBC TWO adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's romantic tragedy, Madame Bovary. Seductive, passionate and socially ambitious, Emma stifled by her marriage to Charles (HUGH BONNEVILLE) throws herself into a desperate love affair with libertine aristocrat, Rodolphe (GREG WISE) and the seeds of her downfall are sown. TX: BBC TWO. Monday 10 April 2000, Tuesday 11 April 2000. WARNING: This copyright image may be used only to publicise current BBC programmes or other BBC output. Any other use whatsoever without specific prior approval from the BBC may result in legal action.

    Book of the day
    First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran review – how good writing makes sense of the world

    Love verbs and go easy with nouns, and end a sentence on a stressed syllable ... Thoughtful reflections on how to write

March 2018

  • A young person begging in the street in London

    Judgmentalism over giving beggars belief

    Letters: Donors have no right to decide how money they give to someone begging in the street should be spent, argues Peter Kaan. Plus thoughts from Peter Haydon and Jeremy Muldowney

October 2017

  • Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English lexicographer critic and writer. Portrait by J Reynolds.

    From the Guardian archive
    Saving Samuel Johnson's house – archive, 1907

    5 October 1907 The Johnson family home, now a museum, is in need of repair

September 2017

  • a volume of johnsons dictionary on display at 17 gough square

    100 best nonfiction books of all time
    The 100 best nonfiction books: No 86 – A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson (1755)

  • Samuel Johnson (1756-1757) English lexicographer critic and writer. Portrait by J Reynolds (1723-1792).UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Samuel Johnson (1756-1757) English lexicographer critic and writer. Portrait by J Reynolds (1723-1792). (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

    How well do you know Samuel Johnson's dictionary? – quiz

July 2017

  • The statue of James Boswell in Lichfield, Staffordshire, the birthplace of Samuel Johnson.

    100 best nonfiction books of all time
    100 best nonfiction books: No 77 – The Life of Samuel Johnson LLD by James Boswell (1791)

    This huge work is one of the greatest of all English biographies and a testament to one of the great literary friendships

February 2017

  • The Distressed Poet by William Hogarth – a contemporary depiction of Grub Street.

    Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street by Norma Clarke – review

    A lively account of 18th-century London’s literary underworld centres on the author of The Vicar of Wakefield

October 2016

  • Fanny Burney<br>circa 1775: English novelist Frances 'Fanny' Burney (1752 - 1840). Daughter of music historian Charles Burney, she won European fame upon the publication of 'Evelina: Or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World' (1778), followed by 'Cecilia: Or, Memoirs of an Heiress' (1782). She married General Alexandre d'Arblay, a refugee from Revolutionary France in 1793, lived in Paris from 1802 to 1812. From 1815 she lived in England and edited her father's 'Memoirs' (1832). Original Artwork: After a painting by E Burney. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Fanny Burney wrote one of the most courageous pieces of work I’ve ever encountered

    Jenni Murray
    The diarist and novelist was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1810 and wrote an account of her ‘terrible operation’ for her sisters

June 2016

  • A general view down a classic northern back alley in Oldham

    Brief letters
    The tenfoot – a place to bool one’s tansad

    Brief letters: Philip Green and BHS | Loose canon | Deepcut scandal | Hull’s back alleys | Tetty Johnson | Background music

November 2015

  • Detail of a portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley leaning on desk

    Shelley, Johnson and the enemies of liberty

    Letters: Shelley never changed his opinions on the need for the abolition of the unequal wealth in society, but before him, Dr Johnson was a fierce critic of colonial wars

October 2015

  • The Chop Room at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, 1910s.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 5 October 1926: Pudding Season opens at the Cheshire Cheese

    Manchester Guardian, 5 October 1926: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is among speakers at the Fleet Street pub’s annual celebration, an evening of pudding, pipes and Dr Johnson

August 2015

  • Patrick Page, Hamish Linklater, and Teagle F. Bougere

    Cymbeline review – a glorious theatrical hodgepodge you can't help but applaud

    Sex, sleaze and leather jerkins all feature in Daniel Sullivan’s farcical take on ancient Britain, which despite its shortcomings manages to succeed despite itself

April 2015

  • Salman Rushdie.

    Books blog
    Salman Rushdie's star ratings of fellow novelists revealed

    Salman Rushdie’s dim view of some generally acknowledged classics has emerged by mistake through his GoodReads account. It’s an error we should welcome, says Alison Flood

December 2014

  • Samuel Johnson

    Books blog
    The Choice of Life: Dr Johnson’s Christmas message

    Rasselas, his bracing 18th-century novel about the search for happiness, has wisdom worth remembering in the 21st

November 2013

  • Gin Lane by William Hogarth

    Top 10s
    Dangerous Age: the best books on 18th-century London's perils

    Historical novelist Maria McCann chooses her favourite 10 accounts of a very risky city
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