Johnson Society of London

Programme October 2020 – April 2021

3 October, 4:00 pm (over Zoom)

Johnson: accounting for the self

Dr Philip Jones (Chairman, Johnson Society (Lichfield))

Samuel Johnson on the value of commerce: economics and morality in the context of empire and the slave trade.

Professor Frans De Bruyn (University of Ottawa)

12 noon. The Annual Commemoration at Westminster Abbey, by courtesy of the Dean and Chapter. Details to be advised.

Topham Beauclerk (1739-1780), Dr Johnson’s aristocratic friend

Dr David Noy

J. D. Fleeman: the greatest Johnsonian?

Dr Anthony W. Lee

3.00 pm (over Zoom) Annual General Meeting

4:00 pm (over Zoom) ‘Spectating and rambling, uncommercially and idly, all the year round’: Johnson, Dickens and periodical journalism

Dr Tony Williams (Past President, Dickens Fellowship)

The legacy of James Boswell’s travel writing

Dr Julian Griffin (Head of English, Leicester Grammar School)