Article: Dr Johnson's Women.(Book Review)

Dr Johnson's Women. By NORMA CLARKE. London and New York: Hambledon. 2000. xii + 260 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling].

Small Change: Women, Learning and Patriotism, 1750-1810. By HARRIET GUEST. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xi + 350 pp. $49; 31 [pounds sterling] (pbk $18; 11.50 [pounds sterling]).

The starting point of Norma Clarke's highly readable 'collective biography' of 'Dr Johnson's women' is a remark recorded but sidelined in Boswell's Life of Johnson: 'I dined yesterday at Mrs Garrick's, with Mrs Carter, Miss Hannah More, and Miss Fanny Burney. Three such women are not to be found; I know not where I could find a fourth, except Mrs ...

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