Dictionary Bliss
Most of us prefer novels, biographies and memoirs. However, there are always those, like Malcolm X or Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who see dictionaries as approachable texts and find magic in their method. –Henry Hitchings, Defining…
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Dr. Johnson and Jane Austen
One unblushing admirer of the Dictionary was Jane Austen’s father, who assembled a substantial collection of books by Johnson, by his friends and associates, and about both the man and his circle. Inspired by her…