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Hill Boothby (27 October 1708 – 16 January 1756) was an
Johnson addresses her as ''sweet angel'' and ''dearest dear,'' and assures her that he ‘has none other on whom his heart reposes.’ Johnson wrote that he would look for a new wife and Hill Boothby was his intended.
In his letters, he tells her of his remedy which he had refused to tell Boswell. He believed that wine and dried orange peel was of benefit for the bowels.
Boothby died on 16 January 1756 and Johnson was grief-stricken. He had written echoing Descartes that “I am alive therefore I love Miss Boothby”.Kathryn M. Burton, ‘Boothby, Hill (1708–1756)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 2 Jan 2017
/ref> Her letters were collected and later published.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boothby, Hill 1708 births 1756 deaths People from Ashbourne, Derbyshire
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friend and late love of Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson ( – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...
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Life
Boothby was born in Ashbourne in 1708. She was the granddaughter of Sir William Boothby, third baronet, and daughter of Mr. Brook Boothby, ofAshbourne Hall
Ashbourne Hall is a Manor house originally built by the Cockayne family in the 13th century in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. The present building is part of a largely repurposed, Georgian-styled hall built in the 18th century.
The Cockayne family
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. Her mother was Elizabeth Fitzherbert, a daughter of John Fitzherbert of Somersal Herbert
Somersal Herbert is a hamlet and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, 2 miles northeast of Doveridge. Somersal Herbert Hall was built c.1564, incorporating an earlier building from c.1500, and is a Grade I listed building
In the United Ki ...
. Anna Seward
Anna Seward (12 December 1742 ld style: 1 December 1742./ref>Often wrongly given as 1747.25 March 1809) was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. She benefited from her father's progressive views on female education.
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called her ''the sublimated methodistic Hill Boothby who read her bible in Hebrew.'' Boothby made the acquaintance of Dr. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson ( – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...
whilst he was staying with Dr. John Taylor when they were younger, although at the time he was interested in another in 1739-40.
Johnson addresses her as ''sweet angel'' and ''dearest dear,'' and assures her that he ‘has none other on whom his heart reposes.’ Johnson wrote that he would look for a new wife and Hill Boothby was his intended.
In his letters, he tells her of his remedy which he had refused to tell Boswell. He believed that wine and dried orange peel was of benefit for the bowels.
Boothby died on 16 January 1756 and Johnson was grief-stricken. He had written echoing Descartes that “I am alive therefore I love Miss Boothby”.Kathryn M. Burton, ‘Boothby, Hill (1708–1756)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 2 Jan 2017
/ref> Her letters were collected and later published.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boothby, Hill 1708 births 1756 deaths People from Ashbourne, Derbyshire