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Re: friday funnies early



Well, not all of us have degrees in English--so bewilderment is not out of order.  However, the context of the story indicates that what was funny was the "teaching one's grandmother to suck eggs" content of gushing about new knowledge of Boswell to someone who was familiar with 18th-century English writers.

James Boswell is usually known as the biographer of English literary heavy Samuel Johnson.  A good place for a short biographical sketch is
http://www.ebs.hw.ac.uk/EDC/edinburghers/james-boswell.html
which shows that Boswell and Pope (1688-1744) were not contemporaries; but of course anyone studying the 18th century would have run into accounts of both figures in many of the same sources.

Arel Lucas
Tobacco Control Archives
University of California at San Francisco
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On Thu, 04 October 2001, "Pope, Barbara" wrote:
> I feel a little bewildered. I don't know who or what Boswell is. <snip>

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