Samuel Johnson : a personality in conflict
"This book traces the origin and course of the 'general disease' of Dr Johnson's life, the 'vile melancholy which tormented him during much of his life. The evidence is all available in the records of Dr Johnson's life and in his writings, which are more often than not autobiographical. George Irwin has brought it together in an illuminating account of Johnson's uneasy relations with his mother, his struggles to understand and master his neurosis, and the relief which finallyu came through the largely unconscious agency of Mrs Thrale..."--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 1971
Auckland University Press, [Auckland, N.Z.], 1971