Dr. Johnson's 'Own Dear Master': The Life of Henry Thrale

by Lee Morgan and Lee Morgan

In this biography, Lee Morgan tells the story of Henry Thrale, a successful but flawed and troubled businessman and Member of Parliament who was at the center of the life of the most famous man of letters of the eighteenth century, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Thrale was also married to an exceptionally talented diarist and, perhaps, the most brilliant society leader of the period, Hester Salusbury Thrale, later Mrs. Gabriel Piozzi. In chronicling both the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761810307
• ISBN13: 9780761810308
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 304 Pages