Tag Archives: Life of Johnson

Johnson’s Coffee Pot

Posted on May 1, 2020 by admin

If, like me, you love a hot brew, then ‘Dr Johnson’s teapot’, now held at the Houghton Library in Harvard University, is a must-see. Dating from c. 1765-68, this item was certainly used at 17 Gough Square, and certainly belonged … Continue reading →

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Effigies

Posted on December 15, 2019 by admin

Writers’ animals, explored in an earlier post (https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/literarytourist/?p=226) meditate upon the nature of authorship and writing in relation to the body. This is true also of efforts to represent the author at more or less life-like and life-size, as … Continue reading →

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