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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. (10[1])Involuntary (-5[1])tics described (10[1])in works of this type led to a posthumous Tourette’s diagnosis for their subject, who in one of these works kicks a stone 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 type of work, (10[1])one of which by James Boswell details days in the life (10[1])of the British author (10[1])of a 1755 Dictionary. ■END■ (10[2]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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