Both the nature of his birth and the discomfort he suffered during his first hours, were a sign of what was to come later in life. When Samuel Johnson was around three years old, he unfortunately ...

Samuel Johnson was no Mel Gibson ... "I was born almost dead and could not cry for some time," he recalled late in life. In infancy, scrofulous lymph nodes were found in his neck and attributed ...

However, as Naomi notes, Johnson's London was not “the London of the fancy balls and silk outfits of fashionable sets and court visits – Johnson's life was lived in dingy back alleys and ...

But soon enough the satisfactions of country life began to pall. And then, late in 1784, Samuel Johnson died of congestive heart failure at age 75. The news left Boswell “stunned, and in a kind ...

Johnson, whose long list of TV and film credits includes Secret Life Of Us, Molly (the Molly ... put in place to ensure I don’t stay up too late the night before.” Johnson has been doing ...

In the south transept of Westminster Abbey is the grave of Dr Samuel Johnson, lexicographer and critic. He lies just in front of Shakespeare's memorial. The inscription in brass letters reads: SAMUEL ...