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Books like Samuel Johnson A Biography

Across 18th Century, Biology, Literary Figures, and English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Samuel Johnson A Biography by Peter Martin.

18th Century Biology Literary Figures English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Life Sciences Modern Great Britain European Literary Criticism Science Europe Historical Biography & Autobiography History

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Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Samuel Johnson A Biography — in theme, mood, or literary style.

The Literary Churchill Author, Reader, Actor

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Themes: Biology • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Dinner with Joseph Johnson Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

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Themes: 18th Century • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The World in Thirty-eight Chapters, Or, Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life

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Themes: 18th Century • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: 18th Century • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Straight Acting The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Charles Dickens The Man, the Novels, the Victorian Age

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Mad World Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Diary of Samuel Pepys A Selection

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Rossettis in Wonderland A Victorian Family History

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century From Milton to Mary Shelley

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Themes: 18th Century • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Soul of the Age The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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The Crichel Boys Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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Thomas Hardy Half a Londoner

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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England in the Age of Dickens 1812-70

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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Vera Brittain and the First World War The Story of Testament of Youth

Mark Bostridge

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

#18

Flesh in the Age of Reason

Roy Porter

Themes: 18th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

#19

Novel Histories British Women Writing History, 1760-1830

Lisa Kasmer

Themes: 18th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

#20

British Enlightenment Theatre Dramatizing Difference

Bridget Orr

Themes: 18th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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Dickens’ Fur Coat and Charlotte’s Unanswered Letters The Rows and Romances of England’s Great Victorian Novelists

Daniel Pool

Themes: 18th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel

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Themes: 18th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840

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Themes: 18th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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Mrs Woolf and the Servants The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Great Britain

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Samuel Johnson A Biography by Peter Martin. Connected by 18th Century, Biology, Literary Figures. Authors featured include Jonathan Rose, Daisy Hay, Henry Hitchings, Oliver Soden, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.