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Pat Rogers

Pat Rogers is the author of Johnson (Past Masters), The Samuel Johnson Encylopedia, and the entry for Johnson in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Clearing London's fog (Features) , June 2013, 18
The enthralling history of eighteenth-century London.

An old-fashioned picaro (Features) , November 2012, 10
On The Adventures of Roderick Random and Tobias Smollet.

A checkered life (Books) , December 2011, 86
A review of Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger

Sentimental journeys (Features) , October 2009, 24
On The Letters of Laurence Sterne, edited by Melvyn New and Peter de Voogd.

A case of murder?: a reply (Letters) , October 2009, 82

Cheerfulness breaks in (Features) , June 2009, 17
On two new biographies of the incomparable Dr. Johnson.

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