The Heart of Boswell

Mark Harris: Editor, McGraw Hill, 1981

Highlights from the Journals.

The Hooded Hawk – First Edition, 1946

James Boswell, A Short Life – Second Edition, 1952

D.B. Wyndham Lewis, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London

An excellent concise biography.

Boswell the Biographer

George Mallory, Smith Elder & Co., London, 1912

Preceded the finding of the Boswell Papers and based on limited documentation.

Boswell’s Autobiography

Percy Fitzgerald, Chatto & Windus, London, 1912

Boswell intended himself to be the central figure in the Life. One of the first analyses of his motivations.

James Boswell

C.E. Vulliamy, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933

Historical value since there were few available sources of information. A negative approach.

Johnson and Boswell: The Story of Their Lives

Hesketh Pearson, Harper and Brothers, 1958

A combined biography.