Question

George Steevens critiqued a work of this type that was announced weeks after the publication of a similar work by Thomas Tyers. That work of this type was by John Hawkins. A diary of “table talk” called the Thraliana informed a work of this type by Hester Thrale. A work of this type describes the freed Jamaican slave Francis Barber and an oyster-fed cat named Hodge. (10[2]-5[1])Involuntary (-5[2])tics (10[1])described (10[1])in works of this type led to a (-5[1])posthumous Tourette’s diagnosis (10[2])for their subject, (-5[2])who (-5[1])in one of these works kicks a stone (-5[1])to refute George Berkeley’s (10[1]-5[2])idealism. (10[2]-5[1])The most famous work of this type (-5[2])was built off of the earlier travelogue The Journal (10[1])of a Tour to the Hebrides. (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this (-5[1])type of work, (10[1]0[1])one of which by James Boswell (10[2]-5[1])details days (-5[1])in the life (10[2])of the British author (10[1])of a (10[1])1755 (10[1])Dictionary. (10[2]0[1])■END■ (10[10]0[11])

ANSWER: biography of Samuel Johnson [prompt on biography (by Boswell) by asking “of whom?”; accept Life of Samuel Johnson; accept Dr Johnson in place of “Samuel Johnson”]
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