Title: Johnsonian gleanings.
Authors: Reade, Aleyn Lyell, 1876-; Reade, Aleyn Lyell, 1876-; Reade, Aleyn Lyell, 1876-1953.
Publisher: Octagon Books,
Year: 1968
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel,; Johnson family.; Barber, Frank,; Jarvis family.; Porter family.; Authors, English Biography; Lexicographers Great Britain Biography; Intellectuals Great Britain Biography.; Critics Great Britain Biography
Contents: pt. 1. Notes on Dr. Johnson's ancestors and connexions and illustrative of his early life.--pt. 2. Francis Barber, the doctor's Negro servant.--pt. 3. The doctor's boyhood.--pt. 4. The doctor's boyhood. Appendices.--pt. 5. The doctor's life, 1728-1735.--pt. 6. The doctor's life, 1735-1740.--pt. 7. The Jervis, Porter, and other allied families.--pt. 8. A miscellany.--pt. 9. A further miscellany.--pt. 10. Johnson's early life: the final narrative.--pt. 11. Consolidated index of persons: to parts 1 to 10, as well as to the Johnsonian portions of The Reades of Blackwood Hill and Dr. Johnson's ancestry.