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- Title
Boswell’s Mistaken Saint: A Note to Hypochondriack No. 47.
- Authors
Walker, Robert G.
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the August 1781 essay "Hypochondriak No. 47," by James Boswell, is presented. The author describes a note to the scholarly edition of the essay referring to St. Anthony in relation to the legend of the woman of snow and suggests that Boswell and his editor Margery Bailey mistakenly referred to St. Anthony rather than St. Francis. The author describes 18th-century texts mentioning St. Francis in relation to the woman of snow such as the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler.
- Subjects
BOSWELL, James, 1740-1795; BRITISH literature; SAINTS in literature; FRANCIS, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226; ANTHONY, of Egypt, Saint, ca. 250-355 or 356; BAILEY, Margery, 1891-1963; BUTLER, Samuel, 1612-1680
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2011, Vol 58, Issue 3, p425
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjr132