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. Involuntary tics described 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 (10[1])idealism. The most famous work of this type (-5[1])was built off of the earlier travelogue The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. For 10 points, name this type of work, one of which by James Boswell (10[1])details days in the life of the British author of a 1755 Dictionary. ■END■ (0[1])