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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. (-5[1])Involuntary (-5[1])tics described in works of this type led to a (-5[1])posthumous Tourette’s diagnosis (10[1])for their subject, (-5[1])who in one of these works kicks a stone (-5[1])to refute George Berkeley’s idealism. The most famous work of this type was built off of the earlier travelogue The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. For 10 points, name this (-5[1])type of work, one of which by James Boswell details days in the life of the British author of a (10[1])1755 Dictionary. (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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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Kevin FlanaganBristolKiel65-5
Thomas HartWarwickOxford A66-5
Enoch YuenImperial AEdinburgh76-5
Sam FooCambridge ACambridge B7910
Alessandro BogoKCLSheffield82-5
Eileen PengOxford CCambridge C91-5
Michael KohnDurham AImperial B123-5
Ella WardeOxford BDurham B14310
Ian DewanKielBristol14510
Rose ConwayCambridge COxford C1460
Taiga ClarkeImperial BDurham A1460
James CarrigyEdinburghImperial A14610
Freddy PottsSheffieldKCL14610
Jacob RobertsonOxford AWarwick14610