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Johnsonian Gleanings, Vol. 1


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Excerpt from Johnsonian Gleanings, Vol. 1: Notes on Dr. Johnson's Ancestors and Connexions and Illustrative of His Early Life, With Frontispiece and Seven Plates The first thirty pages of this book consist of fifteen articles contributed to Notes and Queries, the first on 12 Oct., 1907, the last on 12 June, 1909. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.










Notable Women Authors of the Day


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Typical of the genre of literature which presented short biographies of women to demonstrate their accomplishments, this book sketches the lives of twenty prominent British women.