Harriet Kirkley. A Biographer at Wo...

Harriet Kirkley. A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson's Notes for the 'Life of Pope' Lewisburg: Bucknell UP 2002 279 pp ISBN 0-8387-5507-0 $4850

The title give an inkling ofs that this book has a worthy further limited purpose: to provide a scholarly edition of the working notes made at Samuel Johnson when he was writing his "Life of Pope" The notes are for the greatest part in the British Library among the papers of the Cambridgeshire antiquary William cabbage who was given them by dint of George Steevens in 1782. Isaac Disraeli incorporated an of them in his Curiosities of Literature, and F W