# Samuel Johnson

Author: Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11031

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Samuel+Johnson+Stephen&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709. His father, Michael Johnson, was a bookseller, highly respected by the cathedral clergy, and for a time sufficiently prosperous to be a magistrate of the town, and, in the year of his son's birth, sheriff of the county. He opened a bookstall on market-days at neighbouring towns, including Birmingham, which was as yet unable to maintain a separate bookseller. The tradesman often exaggerates the prejudices of the class whose wants he supplies, and Michael Johnson was probably a more devoted High Churchman and Tory than many of the cathedral clergy themselves. He reconciled himself with difficulty to taking the oaths against the exiled dynasty. H...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-johnson-11031/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-johnson-11031/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-johnson-11031/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-johnson-11031/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-johnson-11031/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/samuel-johnson-11031/chapters/1/index.md)