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The New Rambler
Journal of the Johnson Society of London
for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Samuel Johnson
The Society's journal, the New Rambler commenced publication in 1941 and appears annually. It prints the papers delivered to the Society, together with book reviews and articles. Back numbers from June 1968 to date (except those marked "sold out") are available at £3.00 per issue. The set of these issues is available at £50.00, plus postage. The proceeds from sale of back issues go to Dr Johnson's House, Gough Square.
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Contents
Click on the appropriate issue:
January 1967, June 1967, January 1968, June 1968, January 1969, June 1969, January 1970, June 1970, Spring 1971, Autumn 1971, Spring 1972, Autumn 1972, Spring 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, Supplement 1928-78, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985/86, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1990/91, 1991/92, 1992/93, 1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004.
The New Rambler, January 1967 (Issue C II) SOLD OUT
Commemorative Address 1966
Ross Wilson
Johnson's Strictures upon Pious Poetry
Revd Canon Adam Fox
Peg Woffington and her Circle
Revd Dr W S Scott
Doctor Johnson and Wine
Ross Wilson
Sir Sydney Roberts 1887-1966
The New Rambler, June 1967 (Issue C III) SOLD OUT
The Deserted Village
Ian Jack
Samuel Johnson: Satire and Satirists
Douglas Grant
Johnson and Cowley
Lois M G Spencer
Johnson and Charlotte Lennox
Duncan Isles
Harlequin Rasselas
Professor Mayer
The New Rambler, January 1968 (Issue C II) SOLD OUT
Commemorative Address 1967
A R Winnett
Johnson and the Antiquarian World
R W Ketton-Cremer
Dr Johnson on Prose Fiction
James B Misenheimer
Samuel Johnson's Review of Soame Jenyns' "A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil": a Re-examination
Lester Goodson
Queen Charlotte: Fanny Burney's Employer (Part 1)
T S Blakeney
Henry Angus Morgan
Book review
Rachel Trickett, The Honest Muse: A Study in Augustan Verse
Reviewed by H. MacL. Currie
The New Rambler, June 1968 (Issue C V)
Queen Charlotte: Fanny Burney's Employer (Part 2)
T S Blakeney
Johnson the Essayist
Geoffrey Bullough
The Death Mask of Samuel Johnson
Ronald MacKeith
Michael Waterhouse 1888-1968
Book reviews
Herbert Barrows (ed), Hesther Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany
Reviewed by H. MacL. Currie
J P Hardy (ed), The Political Writings of Dr Johnson
Reviewed by Ross Wilson
J D Fleeman, A Preliminary Handlist of Documents and Manuscripts of Samuel Johnson
Reviewed by L F Powell
The New Rambler, January 1969 (Issue C V)
Erskine for the Defence
Richard Clements
Dr Johnson and his Catholic Contemporaries
Douglas Woodruff
The Dictionary and Drink
Ross Wilson
America and the Americans as Seen by James Boswell's "The Life of Johnson" and in the Letters of Johnson and Boswell
Terence Brown
F W M Draper
Dr G P Gooch
Oliver D Savage
Book reviews
F E Halliday, Dr Johnson and his World
Reviewed by James H Leicester
Carl Brinitzer, Dr Johnson und Boswell
Reviewed by Terry Belanger
The New Rambler, June 1969 (Issue C V)
Some Unpublished Early Verse of Henry Fielding
Isobel Grundy
Johnson and Pulpit Eloquence
David D Brown
Samuel Johnson and William Lauder: Malevolence in the Criticism of Milton
Lloyd B Lacey
Vanity Fair and the Johnsonian Tradition of Fiction
Leslie M Thompson
Book review
W J Bate (ed), Samuel Johnson: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer and Idler
The New Rambler, January 1970 (Issue C VIII)
Commemorative Address 1969
James H Leicester
The Controversy over Johnson's Burial
J Carter Rowland
Samuel Johnson: a Sonnet
Helen Forsyth
Dr Johnson and John Wesley
John C Bowmer
Lord Monboddo
Eric M Bonner
Victor M Halsted
R W Ketton-Cremer
Professor Geoffrey Tillotson
Book review
James Downey, The Eighteenth Century Pulpit: A Study of the Sermons of Butler, Whitefield and Wesley
Reviewed by David D Brown
The New Rambler, June 1970 (Issue C IX)
Wilkes and Johnson
E J Miller
Dr Johnson's Chemistry and the Influence of Boerhave
Peter Cooper
Curiosity Gratified with Wonders - Children and the Experience of Literature
Brian W Alderson
Sidelights on Smuggling
Ross Wilson
Loch Ness, Whisky and Dr Johnson
Ross Wilson
Book review
H Edmund Poole (ed), Charles Burney, Music, Men and Manners in France and Italy, 1770
Reviewed by H Diack Johnstone
The New Rambler, Spring 1971 (Issue C X)
Commemorative Address 1970
F M Hodgess Roper
George Psalmanazar
A R Winnet
Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage: A Survey
James B Misenheimer Jr
The Political Sermons of Johnson and Swift
Jordan P Richman
Frederic Nicklin Doubleday
Book review
James L Clifford, From Puzzles to Portraits: Problems of a Literary Biographer
Reviewed by J H Leicester
The New Rambler, Autumn 1971 (Issue C X)
Dr Johnson and Dr Hawkesworth: a Literary Friendship
John L Abbott
Johnson, Golsmith and The Traveller
David Fong
Johnson's Use of English Names in the Periodical Essays
Margaret Bryan
Brewing and Lichfield
Ross Wilson
The Critical Significance of Rambler 4
Samuel E Longmire
To Johnsonise the Land
J H Leicester
Trivia, 1941
Oliver D Savage
The New Rambler, Spring 1972 (Issue C XII)
Commemorative Address 1971
James B Misenheimer
A Moon of Literature: Verse by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Isobel Grundy
The Association Books of Johnson, Boswell, and Mrs. Piozzi in the Birthplace Museum
K K Yung
The Crisis of Identity in Fanny Burney's Evelina
Jill Rubenstein
Dr Johnson and the Tears of Heraclitus
Raman Selden
"No Abolition of Slavery": Boswell and the Slave Trade
Ronald E McFarland
The New Rambler, Autumn 1972 (Issue C XIII)
Samuel Johnson's Christian Humanism and the Function of LiteratureJames B Misenheimer Jr
Dr Johnson, Henry Thrale and London Brewing
Ross Wilson
Violence in Hudibras and Hogarth's Illustrations
William C Horne
The New Rambler, Spring 1973 (Issue C XIV)
Arthur Murphy, Actor and Author
H. MacL. Currie
Arthur Murphy's "Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding, Esq": Re-reading a Slighted Critic
Susan Miller Passler
The Happy Valley: a Version of Hell and a Version of Pastoral
Marlene R Hansen
Johnson's Vision of Theodore
Richard R Schwartz
Johnson's Moral Shock as Critical Norm
John T LaVia
Book review
Henry Pettet (ed), The Correspondence of Edward Young 1683-1765
Reviewed by Richard C Frushell
The New Rambler 1974 (Issue C XV)
Samuel Johnson and the Supernatural in Shakespeare
B D Cosgrove
J & B: Learning to Love the Scotch
Theodore L Steinberg
John Home's Douglas: the Role of Providence
James S Malek
Looking at Johnson's Life of Dryden
Carmen J Pomponio
Fielding's First Assault on George Whitefield and Parson Adams' "Good Turk"
Thomas R Cleary
Walter Robert Matthews 1881-1973
Book review
E L Cloyd, James Burnett - Lord Monboddo
Reviewed by Eric M Bonner
The New Rambler 1975 (Issue C XVI)
Radical Sam Johnson
Graham W Nicholls
Lawrence Fitzroy Powell Memorial Service
Johnson's Heroes before the Life of Savage
Richard R Reynolds
R H Hutton and Samuel Johnson
Robert H Tener
The Anti-Hero in the Beggar's Opera
Mary Kathryn Williams
Religious Metaphor in Humphry Clinker
David K Jeffrey
Genius - a Definitive Exploration
Helen Forsyth
The Making of a Boswellian Museum
Gordon P Hoyle
The New Rambler 1976 (Issue C XVII)
Lawrence Fitzroy Powell, 1881-1975
J S G Simmons
'Dear Cuz": the Letters of Thomas Percy to William Cleiveland
Bertram H. Davis
A Balliol Rival to Dr Johnson's Tutor: Cornelius Crawfurd
James Gray
Patriotism and Scoundrels and Dr Johnson: the Last Refuge
Samuel I Bellman
Samuel Johnson's Contribution to the Novel
Willis J Monie
Johnson Defines an Audience for the Dictionary
Dorothy Bilik
Annual Commemoration 1975
Arthur Grant Dowdeswell
Samuel Johnson: a Sonnet
Helen Forsyth
The New Rambler 1977 (Issue C XVIII)
Robert Dodsley and the Johnsonian Connexion
Lois G Spencer
"Poetic Harmony" - some Johnsonian Views
Kai Kin Yung
Annual Commemoration 1976
The Enchained Heart and the Puzzled Biographer: Johnson's Life of Savage
Michael M Cohen
Family and Pilgrimage Themes in Burney's Evelina
Emily H Patterson
Dr Johnson's Attitude Towards the Education of Women
Charmaine Wellington
Dr Ronald MacKeith
The New Rambler 1978 (Issue CXIX)
Charlotte Lennox, First American Woman Playwright
Wendy Nelson-Cave
On Reading Johnson for Laughs
Isobel Grundy
Johnson and Goldsmith: Comic Theory and Comic Practice
Peter Dixon
The Commemorative Address 1977
Canon A R Winnett
Johnson and the Irish
Canon A R Winnett
The New Rambler Golden Jubilee Issue 1928-1978 (Issue C, Supplement)
James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1978
Donald Greene
The Eidolon of Hawkesworth's Adventurer
Philip Mahone Griffith
Some Allusions, Foreign and Domestic, in Johnson's London
Vincent Liesenfeld and Richard R. Schwartz
Samuel Johnson: a Sonnet
Helen Forsyth
Samuel Johnson, Literary Theory, and the Values of Biography
James B Misenheimer
The Johnson Society of London
The Golden Jubilee Dinner
The New Rambler
St Edmund the King, Lombard Street
The Johnson Halfpenny
The New Rambler 1979 (Issue C XX)
Jane Eyre and Rasselas: the Influence of Dr Johnson on Charlotte Bronte
Frances Hodgess Roper
The Boundaries of Streatham Park
The Library Portraits at Streatham Park
Mrs Donald Hyde
The Commemorative Address 1979
Mrs Donald Hyde
"...And a Mr Offely ..."
Ross E Wilson
House Building on Coll and Tiree
Ross E Wilson
Visit to Bromley Parish Church, Kent
Douglas Wollen
The Streatham Park Doors
Nominal and Verbal Style in Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes
Tilottama Rajan
The New Rambler 1980 (Issue C XXI)
Dr Johnson and the Prose Genres
James B Misenheimer
William Boyce: a Belated Bicentenary Tribute
lan Bartlett
The Wisdom of Johnson's Shakespeare
Graham Nicholls
The Critical Review's Reception of Dr Johnson
Oskar Wellens
"Three Halfpence and Twopence Halfpenny": David Garrick and Johnson
E D M Forbes
Brief Chronology of David Garrick and Samuel Johnson
E D M Forbes
The New Rambler 1981 (Issue C XXII)
Nothing of the Bear but his Skin
Helen Forsyth
The Commemorative Address 1981
J D Fleeman
Editing Johnson's Journey
J D Fleeman
Short Fiction in Hawkesworth's Adventurer (1752-1754)
Philip Mahone Griffith
Boswell on the Grand Tour (Germany and Switzerland) 1764: Belle Epoque for the Man in Search of a Character
Jim Steinke
A Reading from "Frank Barber", a Play in Progress
John Wain
John Phillips - an Eighteenth-Century Hatter
Ursula Pye
Lichfield: the Glory without the Power
Ross Wilson
The New Rambler 1982 (Issue C XXIII)
Samuel Johnson and the Law
William Domnarski
Dr Johnson's Theory of Autobiography
Patrick D Hundley
Johnson and the Art of Translation
John MacInery
Dr Johnson and David Garrick - a Friendship
Elizabeth Jenkins
Strangled with a Bowstring: A Clear Case of Character Assassination
Anthony Vaughan
Random Thoughts on Rasselas
Charlotte Graves Taylor
Johan Zoffany
The Commemorative Address 1982
Ian Jack
Johnson and Autobiography
Ian Jack
Considering Boswell's Poetry
Ronald E McFarland
The New Rambler 1983 (Issue CXXIV)
Gilpin and the Picturesque
Stella Pigrome
Richard Graves (1715-1804): the Sprightly Author of the Spiritual Quixote
Clarence Tracy
Swift and Johnson: the Problems of the Life of Swift
J A Downie
Samuel Johnson and John Wesley: the Rough and the Smooth
Douglas Wollen
Growing up in Lichfield
Peter Stockham
Dr Johnson on the Rise of the Novel
Mark Kinkead-Weekes
Commemmorative Address 1983
James B Misenheimer
The Cordell Collection of Dictionaries and Johnson's Lexicographic Presence: the Love of Books in Two Centuries
James B Misenheimer with Robert K O'Neill
The History of Dr Johnson's Summer-House
Donald N Cook
The New Rambler Commemoration Issue 1984 (Issue C XXV)
Dr Johnson and his Medical Advisers
Frank Collings
Scott and Johnson as Biographers of Dryden
William Rudddick
Samuel Johnson: a Sonnet
Helen Forsyth
Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Life
Leon Garfield
General Oglethorpe
Geoffrey Lewis
The Enigma of Port and Dr Johnson
Ross Wilson
Portraits of Johnson
John Kerslake
The Stability of Truth
Isobel Grundy
A Note on Gabriel Piozzi and his Wife's Writing
Martine Watson Brownley
Book reviews
J D Fleeman (ed), A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr Samuel Johnson
Reviewed by Isobel Grundy
Donald Greene, The Oxford Authors: Samuel Johnson
Reviewed by Isobel Grundy
Valerie Grosvenor Myer (ed), Laurence Sterne: Riddles and Mysteries
Reviewed by William Ruddick
Isobel Grundy (ed), Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays
Reviewed by James H Leicester
Iain Finlayson, The Moth and the Candle: A Life of James Boswell
Reviewed by James H Leicester
Kai Kin Yung et al, Samuel Johnson 1709-84
Reviewed by James H Leicester
The New Rambler 1985/86 (Issue D I)
Ideas of Illness and Health - 200 years of Change
D G Wilson
Dr Johnson and the Dissenters
G M Ditchfield
Dr Johnson and the English Eccentrics
J W P Rogers
Clubs in the Johnson Age
Ross Wilson
Dr Johnson and the Law: An Enlightenment View
James E Reilman
Johnson and Shakespeare
Jonathan Bate
Dr Johnson and the Falkland Islands
Christopher Ricks
Johnson and the Critic as Idealist: Some Reflections on Famous Passages from his Criticism
James B Misenheimer, Jr
Bottling Niagra: Speakers and Reporters in the Late Eighteenth Century House of Commons
Chris Reid
Johnson and Swift
David Nokes
Boswell Without Johnson: the Years After
Irma S Lustig
Johnson's Use of Two Restorations Poems in his "Drury-Lane" Prologue (1747)
C J Clingham
Book reviews
Lyle Larsen, Dr Johnson's Household
Reviewed by J D Fleeman
The New Rambler 1986/87 Issue D II)
The Gendering of Flowers and of Honey Bees in the Eighteenth Century
Yvonne Noble
Johnson, Watts and Wesley
Alan Shelston
Random Reflections
The Revd Dr E F Carpenter
Johnson and the Anglican Tradition
Michael Tree
The Johnsonian Era Coffee Houses
Ross Wilson
The Harmful Drudge
Helen-Louise McGuffie
Dr Johnson and the Seven Provinces
William Fletcher
Surviving as a Professional Author: the Case of Samuel Johnson
O M Brack Jr
Book reviews
Isobel Grundy, Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness
Reviewed by Rachel Trickett
D Greene and J A Vance, A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies 1970-1985
Reviewed by Isobel Grundy
The New Rambler 1987/88 (Issue D III)
Jonas Hanway: a Philanthropist and Founder of the Marine Society"
R M Frampton
Dr Heberden and Dr Johnson
Ernest Heberden
Johnson and Juvenal
W B Hutchings
Johnson's Revisions to his Dictionary
Nigel Wood
The Langtons of Lincolnshire
Kate Sparks
The "Athenian Blockheads": New Light on Johnson's Oxford
James Gray
The Problem of Evil in the 18th Century: Dr Johnson and Soame Jenyns
A R Winnett
Book review
Norman Page (ed), Dr Johnson: Interviews and Recollections
Reviewed by J D Fleeman
The New Rambler 1988/89 (Diamond Jubilee Issue, D IV)
Dr Johnson in Wesley's Letters and Journals
Douglas Wollen
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "A Sister of the Quill"
Isobel Grundy
Johnson as Storyteller
K E Smith
The Success of Johnson's Irene
Laura A Payne
Dr Johnson and the Theatre
James Gray
Imaginative Licentiousness: Johnson on Shakespearean Tragedy
Michael Payne
"Etna Enrag'd": Guiseppe Baretti 1719-89
Leslie Martin
Book reviews
Charles H Hinnant, Samuel Johnson: An Analysis
Reviewed by Isobel Grundy
Suzanne Bloxam, Walpole's Queen of Comedy: Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby
Reviewed by Laura Payne
The New Rambler 1989/90 (Issue D V)
Ellis Cornelia Knight and the Sequel to Rasselas
Mrs A G Dowdeswell
Walpole's Queen of Comedy: Elizabeth Farren
Suzanne Bloxam
A Paper by the President of the Lichfield Johnson Society
Richard Ingrams
Intestine Wars: Body and Text in Pope's Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and The Dunciad
Rebecca Ferguson
Johnson's Use of Shakespeare in the Dictionary
Anne McDermott
Samuel Richardson's Clarissa: Remapping London
Edward Copeland
Provincial Readers of Fiction in Johnson's Lifetime
Jan Fergus
Samuel Johnson and Melodrama
Catherine N Parke
Book reviews
Prem Nath (ed), Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson
Reviewed by David Fleeman
Ernest Heberden, William Heberden, Physician of the Age of Reason
Reviewed by David Fleeman
Isobel Grundy, Patricia Clements and Virginia Blain (eds), The Feminist Companion to Literature in English
Reviewed by Jacqueline Mulhallen
The New Rambler 1990/91 (Issue D VI)
The Provincial Buyers of Johnson's Dictionary and its Alternatives
Jan Fergus
Hammond, Johnson and the Most Difficult Book in the World
Laura Payne
Celebrare Domestica Facta: Johnson and Home Life
Isobel Grundy
The Snail on the Wall: the Cultural Influence of China on 18th Century England
James H Leicester
Intellectual Eclecticism: a Ramble through the Rambler
James B Misenheimer, Jr, and Veva Vonler
A Bull in the China Shop of Taste: Johnson's Prejudice against the Arts Illustrated
Morris R. Brownell
Johnson vs Milton: Criticism as Inquisition
Michael Payne
Book reviews
Paul J Korshin (ed), The Age of Johnson
Reviewed by Isobel Grundy
Frederick J Pottle (ed), James Boswell, Boswell's London Journal 1762-3
Reviewed by C Tom Davis
Alan Reddick, The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773
Reviewed by Isobel Grundy
Sophie von LaRoche, The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim
Reviewed by Isobel Grundy
The New Rambler 1991/92 (Issue D VII)
Young Samuel Johnson and his Birthplace
G W Nicholls and R W White
Johnson and Fanny Burney
K E Smith
Some Thoughts on the Eighteenth Century Response to Miracles
James Gray
James Boswell - a Personal Appreciation
JH Leicester
Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Images of Scotland
Claire Lamont
Dr Johnson and Charles and Mary Lamb: Intellectual Assumptions in the Art of Writing for Children
Carolyn Misenheimer
Thomas Warton and his Friends
David Fairer
Johnson's Lady Frances
Pat Rogers
Progressive or Conservative? Two Trends in Johnson Studies
Daisuke Nagashima
Dr Johnson's Gift to Trinity College Library and the Dating of Letter 318
David Fairer
John Gay, Poet of Town and Country
David Nokes
Book Reviews
Catherine N Parke, Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking
Reviewed by J D Fleeman
Anthony E Brown, Boswellian Studies: A Bibliography (3rd edn)
Reviewed by Pat Rogers
The New Rambler 1992/93 (Issue D VIII)
Dr James and Dr Johnson
T J Murray and James Gray
The "Finest Bit of Blue": Samuel Johnson and the Bluestocking Assemblies
Sally N. Hand
Dr Johnson: the Perfect Professional Fleet Street Hack
Philip Howard
The Dangerous Distinction of Authorship
Anthea Hopkins
Samuel Johnson: Picturesque Tourist
William Ruddick
Winckelmann and the English
W L Fletcher
Dr Johnson's Derbyshire Connections
G M Ditchfield
"A Backdrop of Pipers"
R G Fricker
A Note on Johnson's Charles, Shakespeare's Caesar
Isobel Grundy
Book Reviews
Pat Rogers, Johnson and Eithne Henson, The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry: Samuel Johnson and Romance
Reviewed by Isobel Grundy
The New Rambler 1993/94 (Issue D IX) SOLD OUT
"A Curious Mix of Show": London Pleasure Gardens in the 18th Century
Peter Street
Johnson, Garrick and Macbeth
Jonathan Bate
Sixty-Five Years in the Company of Dr Johnson and his Friends
J H Leicester, Mrs A G Dowdeswell and Miss Stella Pigrome
Highlanders and Heroines: Dr Johnson's Meeting with Flora Macdonald
Hugh Douglas
"The Final Sentence, and Unalterable Allotment": Johnson and Death
Claire Lamont
Hester Thrale and the Globe Theatre
Martin Clout
Dr Johnson and the Ascent to Immortality: an Aspect of his Legacy
James Misenheimer
Dr Johnson, Fanny Burney and Jane Austen
Valerie Grosvenor Myer
In Memory of David Fleeman
Colonel Gimbel and the Literary Anvil: or Why Dr Johnson's Letters belong to the U.S. Airforce Academy's Aeronautical Collection
Captain Brian Hanley
Progress towards Where? Conservation of What?
Donald Greene
Book reviews
Robert Halsband and Isobel Grundy (eds), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Essays and Poems and Simplicity, and Isobel Grundy (ed), Lady Mary Pierrepont: Indamora to Lindamira
Reviewed by Valerie Grosvenor Myer
The New Rambler 1994/95 (Issue D X) SOLD OUT
Johnson's Life of Pope: Morality and Judgment
W B Hutchings
"My Dear Dr Johnson": the Link between Jane Austen and Dr Samuel Johnson
Susan Watkins
Drawing on One's Capital: Hogarth's London
Roy Porter
A Twentieth Century Journey to Scotland in the Footsteps of Johnson and Boswell
Phoebe Killey
Samuel Johnson's Relationship with Edmund Burke
Elizabeth Lambert
"We all love Beattie": the Truthful Minstrel in the Johnson Circle
Roger Robinson
Samuel Johnson and the African-American Reader
James Basker
Samuel Johnson's "Late Conversion" Re-evaluated in view of the Published Sermons
Andrew Sandlin
More on Lady Frances
Anon.
Verses after Dr Johnson
Gina Berkeley
Book reviews
Joseph F. Bartolomeo, A New Species of Criticism: Eighteenth Century Discourse on the Novel
Reviewed by Valerie Grosvenor Myer
Arthur Sherbo, Samuel Johnson's Critical Opinions: a Re-examination
Reviewed by Graham Nicholls
Bruce Redford, The Letters of Samuel Johnson Vols. IV and V
Reviewed by Catherine Dille
Pat Rogers, Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia and Joseph W. Reed and Frederick Pottle (eds), Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck 1778-1782
Reviewed by Hugh Douglas
Charles H. Hinnant, Steel for the mind: Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse
Reviewed by Brian Hanley
The New Rambler 1995/96 (Issue D XI)
The Hertfordshire Thrales and the Streatham Family
Richard Thrale
An Aspect of Dr Johnson
Judge Sir Stephen Tumim
"A Man Led by a Bear": Dr Johnson's Relationship with Boswell's Wife Margaret Montgomery
Brian Todd
Mentors Old and New; Samuel Johnson and Hannah More
Mary Waldron
Dr Johnson's Influence on Jane Austen
Claire Lamont
Numeracy and Dr Johnson
John Craig
Johnson's Contemporary Reputation
Brian Hanley
Book Reviews
John Cannon, Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England
Reviewed by Christopher Reid
Isobel Grundy (ed), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Romance Writings
Reviewed by Eithne Henson
Boswell's Journal of the Tour to Corsica (Literary Travellers Series)
Reviewed by Brian Todd
Isobel Grundy (ed), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Selected Writings
Reviewed by Susan Catto
The New Rambler 1996/97 (Issue D XII)
Mrs Thrale Leaves Home: Closed Circles and Expanding Horizons in Hester Lynch Piozzi's Anecdotes of Dr JohnsonValerie Rumbold
Preparing the Dictionary for CD-ROM
Anne McDermott
Dr Johnson and Edmund Burke
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Johnson and Neo-Hippocratic Medicine
David Harley
The Prevailing Tone of Johnson's Military Commentary
Brian Hanley
An Encore of Pipers
Richard Fricker
Samuel Johnson the Poet
Peter Strickland
In Memoriam Donald Johnson Greene
Book reviews
Barry Baldwin, The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson
Reviewed by Frank Lelievre
Valerie Grosvenor Myer, Obstinate Heart: Jane Austen, a Biography
Reviewed by Claire Lamont
Greg Clingham (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
Reviewed by Matthew M Davis
The New Rambler 1997/98 (Issue E I)
Dr Fleeman's Bibliography of Samuel JohnsonJames McLaverty
Sarah Fielding: Woman of Letters
Linda Bree
The Moral Responsibility of the Novelist
P D James
Despair and its Antidotes in Cowper and Johnson
K E Smith
Johnson's Politics
Alan Downie
Johnson and the Imagination
Warren Chernaik
Goldsmith and Johnson
Peter Dixon
In Memoriam The Very Revd Dr Edward Carpenter
Two more Johnson pieces in the Universal Chronicle?
James F Woodruff
Book reviews
Pat Rogers, The Johnson Encyclopedia
Reviewed by Anne McDermott
Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer, 'A Neutral Being Between the Sexes': Johnson's Sexual Politics
Reviewed by Catherine Dille
Lee Morgan, Dr Johnson's 'Own Dear Master': the Life of Henry Thrale
Reviewed by Richard Thrale
Lawrence Lipking, Samuel Johnson: the Life of an Author
Reviewed by Michael Bundock
The New Rambler 1998/99 (Issue E II)
Johnson and EconomicsJohn Craig
The Devout Dr Johnson
Frank Delaney
Books and the Imagination: Arabella, David Hume and the Eighteenth-Century Readers of History and Fiction
Marina Frasca-Spada
17 Gough Square
Natasha McEnroe
Fanny Burney and the Witlings
Karin Fernald
Charlotte Smith and the Lichfield Two
Loraine Fletcher
In Memoriam John Comyn
An Association Copy of Mrs Piozzi's Anecdotes
Michael Bundock
Book reviews
Thomas Curley, Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature and Empire in the Age of Johnson
Reviewed by J. T. Scanlan
Isobel Grundy, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment
Reviewed by Eithne Henson
Peter Martin, A Life of James Boswell
Reviewed by Allan Ingram
Leo Damrosch (ed.), Major Authors on CD-ROM: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
Reviewed by Michael Bundock
The New Rambler 1999/20001 (Issue E III)
Slavery in the Eighteenth CenturyPeter Street
John Hoole: Translator, Playwright and East India Company Auditor
Kenneth Kemp
Johnson and Unbelief
Richard Harries
The Streatham Johnson Knew
John Cresswell
Johnson and the Theatre
Gabriel Woolf
Johnson Reads for the Dictionary
Graham Nicholls
Tetty Johnson
Kate Chisholm
In Memoriam David Parker
Why Read Samuel Johnson?
Stephen Miller
Samuel Johnson and Lincolnshire
Barry Baldwin
Book reviews
J. D. Fleeman, A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson
Reviewed by Isobel Grundy
Kevin Hart, Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property
Reviwed by Philip Smallwood
David F. Venturo, Johnson the Poet: the Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson
Reviewed by K. E. Smith
Ian McIntyre, Garrick
Reviewed by James Gray
The New Rambler 2000/20001 (Issue E IV)
'A Violent Passion': Pugnacity and the Prizefighting Phenomenon in Johnson's EnglandGenny Gebhardt
Johnson's Milton: the Writer-Hero in The Rambler
Christine Rees
Remembering Sam
Beryl Bainbridge
Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot: Rational Piety in The Rambler
Carolyn D. Williams
Johnson and Percy
Nick Groom
Mrs Piozzi and the Millennium
Karin Fernald
Johnson's Relationship with his Physicians
James Murray
Arguing with Samuel Johnson
Henry Woudhuysen
Home of the Athenian Blockheads: Guidebook Glimpses of Johnson's Oxford
James Gray
Book reviews
Liza Picard, Dr Johnson's London: Life in London 1740-1770
Reviewed by Leonard Schwarz
Adam Potkay, The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume
Reviewed by John Scanlan
Beryl Bainbridge, According to Queeney
Reviewed by Freya Johnston
Adam Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task
Reviewed by Elizabeth Goldring
The New Rambler 2001/2002 (Issue E V)
'Oh My Poor Son': Boswell's Agonies over his ChildrenPeter Martin
The Prayers and Meditations of Samuel Johnson
Michael Bundock
'A Juster View of Johnson': George Birkbeck Hill, Johnson and Boswell's Victorian Editor
Catherine Dille
Johnson, Boswell and the Abolition of Slavery
James G. Basker
Johnson, Boswell and Modern Biography
Jeffrey Meyers
Bluestocking Feminism
Kate Chisholm
Book reviews
Bruce Redford, Designing the 'Life of Johnson' and Marshall Waingrow (ed.), The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the 'Life of Johnson' (2nd edn)
Reviewed by James McLaverty
Brian Hanley, Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned
Reviewed by Graham Nicholls
Frederik N. Smith, Beckett's Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by Freya Johnston
Morris Brownell, The Prime Minister of Taste: a Portrait of Horace Walpole
Reviewed by Stephen Clarke
Jack Lynch, A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies 1986-1998 and Jack Lynch (ed.), Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language
Reviewed by Michael Bundock
The New Rambler 2002/2003 (Issue E VI)
'A Spirit of Contradiction': Samuel Johnson and the LawJ. T. Scanlan
Indifference and Abuse: the Antipathy of Mason, Gray, Walpole and Samuel Johnson
Stephen Clarke
Wisdom as Intellectual Decoration: Selected Passages from Dr Johnson
James B. Misenhemer, Jr
Samuel Johnson and John Wesley
Natasha McEnroe
Erasmus Darwin, Man of Letters
Desmond King-Hele
Johnson and Teachers
Freya Johnston
Samuel Johnson: 'A Poor Diseased Infant, Almost Blind'
John K. Ward
'Some Remarks on the Progress of Learning': a New Preface by Samuel Johnson
O. M. Brack, Jr and Robert DeMaria, Jr
In Memoriam
Mary, Viscountess Eccles
Book Reviews
Jack Lynch, The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson
Reviewed by Christine Rees
James G. Basker (ed.), Amazing Grace: an Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660-1810
Reviewed by Brycchan Carey
Anne Stott, Hannah More: the First Victorian
Reviewed by Mary Waldron
Johnsonian News Letter
Reviewed by Michael Bundock
The New Rambler 2003/2004 (Issue E VII)
Johnson's Criticism and the Passage of TheoryPhilip Smallwood
From Slave to Heir: The Strange Journey of Francis Barber
Michael Bundock
And now a Fig for Mr Nichols!' Samuel Johnson, John Nichols and their Circle
Julian Pooley
Dr Richard Wilkes 'MD' (1691-1760): Physician of Willenhall and Antiquary of Staffordshire
Denis Gibbs
Anna Seward: Swan, Duckling or Goose?
Norma Clarke
Monuments and Communal Memory: Johnson and Public Sculpture
Annette French
Book Reviews
Nicholas Hudson, Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England
Reviewed by Catherine Dille
Philip Smallwood, Johnson's Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment
Reviewed by Jack Lynch