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This page is maintained by Jack Lynch. Of Rutgers – Newark, and was last updated on 26 July 2005. Suggestions and corrections. Since I wrote my dissertation. On Johnson, I edit The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual. I've published several books. Both scholarly and popular, on Johnson, and I maintain other pages devoted to the eighteenth century. I offer this page as your place for one-stop-shopping for Johnson and his circle on the Internet. Suggestions are always welcome. Boswell's Life of Johnson.

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Where no title follows the name it can be assumed that the Presidential Address was of a general Johnsonian nature. 1910 Colonel Sir Robert T White-Thompson, KCB., D.L., JP. 1911 The Rt. Revd A. Wallace Williamson, K.C.V.O., D.L., M.A., D.D. 1912 Sir W Ryland Adkins, K.C., D.L., M.P., J.P. 1913 L Griffiths, “Dr Johnson and America”. 1919 Professor Sir Sydney Lee, D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A., “Dr Johnson and Current Affairs”. 1921 J Frederick Green, M.P. 1922 Sir Chartres Biron, “Johnson and Women”. 1935 Sir J...

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Annual membership subscriptions to the Johnson Society are due on January 1st. Individual membership 10 15 $. Joint Membership 15 20 $. To join the Society, you can choose either to complete the process electronically though PayPal, using the link below, or you can download the application form from this page and mail it to us with your payment. Button below the ‘Submit’ button to make your payment . Membership application and banker’s order form. Completing a Gift Aid Declaration form will enable the So...

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Ever since the end of the Second World War the Society has annually published its Transactions which is distributed throughout its world-wide membership. Each year a new president has been installed at the Birthday Supper in the Guildhall (see listings. The current president is novelist, biographer and critic Dame Margaret Drabble (pictured). Born in Sheffield, she attended school in York and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. Before her first novel,. A Summer Birdcage (1963). The official name ...

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About Johnson |

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Samuel Johnson as a young man. Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum. Samuel Johnson, author, lexicographer and wit, was one of Britain’s leading literary figures in the 18th century. Johnson was the author of the. Dictionary of the English Language. Lives of the Poets. He also edited and was a commentator on Shakespeare’s plays. Johnson began to build a reputation with articles for. The Gentleman’s Magazine. 1738), works of political satire, reports of parliamentary debates and, in 1744,. The Life of Savage.

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Dictionary Society of North America: gender and language

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Dictionary Society of North America. ADS announces 2015 Word of the Year. So said DSNA Executive Secretary Rebecca Shapiro to ADS Word of the Year Committee chair (and DSNA member) Ben Zimmer after the vote was in. The 2015 Word of the Year is. Not the old standby 3rd person plural pronoun, but a recently observed pattern of usage as a gender-neutral singular. Pronoun. Participants in the American Dialect Societys annual deliberations noted the emerging use of. ADS WOTY committee chair Ben Zimmer. Was th...

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Dictionary Society of North America: words & word history

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Dictionary Society of North America. Words and word history. Dictionary of Old English in the news. Has recently published an excellent article about the. Dictionary of Old English. Project housed at the University of Torontos Centre for Medieval Studies. In Old English, Defined, author Alex Gillis reports that forty-six years into the project and half-way through the alphabet, scholars at the University of Toronto move. To complete the work. The. This year, if the controversy over. The first word in.

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Dictionary Society of North America: History of languages

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Dictionary Society of North America. Dictionary of Old English in the news. Has recently published an excellent article about the. Dictionary of Old English. Project housed at the University of Torontos Centre for Medieval Studies. In Old English, Defined, author Alex Gillis reports that forty-six years into the project and half-way through the alphabet, scholars at the University of Toronto move. To complete the work. The. This year, if the controversy over. The first word in. Dictionary of Old English.

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DSNA Weeks Ahead of the Supreme Court - Dictionary Society of North America

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Dictionary Society of North America. Laquo; Put the Pumpkin in the Boat. Deborah Cameron on gender and dictionaries ». DSNA Weeks Ahead of the Supreme Court. ECENTLY, at the biannual meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America, a vote to change our constitution was taken- and passed by a very wide margin- revising the language of the societys definition of joint membership. Thus: e.g. husband and wife. The DSNA carried out this reform weeks. The initial letter for this posting comes from. As a fin...