Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale: Sport, Health and Exercise in Eighteenth-Century England

by Julia Allen

'Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale' challenges the popular image of Samuel Johnson as a man who favoured energetic discussion over physical exercise, enthroned in an armchair peering short-sightedly at a book. Thanks to the diarist and author Hester Thrale we have many anecdotes that connect Dr Johnson to a variety of sports, and Julia Allen, following Lytton Strachey's advice to attack her subject in unexpected places, uses entries from Dr...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718892763
• ISBN13: 9780718892760
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"