Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782

Author(s)

• Boswell, James
• Reed, Joseph W.
• Pottle, Frederick Albert

Bibliographic Information

Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782

[James Boswell] ; edited by Joseph W. Reed and Frederick A. Pottle

Edinburgh University Press, 1993

Reprint

Note

First published 1932 by Yale University, in series: The Yale editions of the private papers of James Boswell

Reprinted 1977 by McGraw-Hill/Heineman

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

It's 1778, Boswell is now aproaching his 40th birthday, married with three young children and a fourth on its way. His father, the laird of Auchinleck, is ill and dying. Boswell himself is full of both the doubts of middle age and the pleasures of family life. Far removed from the rakish, scholarly and amorous adventures described in earlier journals, "Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck" records Boswell's daily trials and incidents as he struggles to manage the family estate of Auchinleck in Ayrshire. Full of momentary detail and flashes of self-knowledge, Boswell's journal is an insight into the mind of the mature diarist.

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• NCID: BA21719884
• ISBN:
  • 0748603921
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Edinburgh
• Pages/Volumes: xxxiv, 570 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 828.608
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Auchinleck (Scotland) -- Biography
  • LCSH : Auchinleck (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Authors, Scottish -- 18th century -- Biography
  • LCSH : Biographers -- Great Britain -- Biography
  • LCSH : Boswell, James, 1740-1795 -- Homes and haunts -- Scotland
  • LCSH : Landowners -- Scotland -- Auchinleck -- Biography