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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. Involuntary tics described in works of this type led to a posthumous Tourette’s diagnosis for their subject, (-5[1])who (-5[1])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 (10[1])of a Tour to the Hebrides. For 10 points, (-5[1])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. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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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