{"id":110,"date":"2008-12-03T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T19:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2008-12-03T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T19:44:30","slug":"when-samuel-met-eustace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2008\/12\/03\/when-samuel-met-eustace\/","title":{"rendered":"When Samuel met Eustace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2008\/12\/08\/081208crat_atlarge_gopnik\">lengthy review of several new Johnson-related books<\/a> written by Adam Gopnik in this week&#8217;s <em>New Yorker<\/em>, and two of those books drew on the Hyde Collection for some of their illustrations. One is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog\/MARSAM.html\">Peter Martin&#8217;s <em>Samuel Johnson: A Biography<\/em><\/a> (published right here at Harvard University Press). The other is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constablerobinson.com\/?section=books&amp;book=hester_the_remarkable_life_of_dr_johnsons_dear_mistress_9781845294496_hardback\">Ian McIntyre&#8217;s <em>Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;Dear Mistress&#8221;<\/em><\/a>, (only out in the UK at present) a biography of Hester Thrale Piozzi.<\/p>\n<p>More reviews of <em>Samuel Johnson<\/em> can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122169595583050185.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/aug\/09\/biography\">here<\/a>. More reviews of <em>Hester<\/em> are <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/non-fiction\/article5046063.ece\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2008\/11\/17\/bohester117.xml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lengthy review of several new Johnson-related books written by Adam Gopnik in this week&#8217;s New Yorker, and two of those books drew on the Hyde Collection for some of their illustrations. One is Peter Martin&#8217;s Samuel Johnson: A Biography (published right here at Harvard University Press). The other is Ian McIntyre&#8217;s Hester: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-overholt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}