Top People in Values
Top Books in Values
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Books/Writings
  • Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
    (Available New and Used)
  • The History of Reasselas, Prince of Abissinia
    (Available New and Used)
Samuel Johnson
1709 – 1784
English

Lexicographer, critic, poet. Champion of the English language. A famous wit who enjoyed good conversation as well as a hard-working scholar, he produced a ground-breaking Dictionary of the English Language.

Contemporaries
1759–1997Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1833William Wilberforce
1759–1836Charles Simeon
1671–1713Anthony Shaftesbury
1743–1805William Paley
1737–1809Thomas Paine
1642–1727Isaac Newton
1689–1762Lady Mary Montagu
1766–1834Thomas Malthus
1778–1840George Brummell
1754–1825Thomas Bowdler
1757–1827William Blake
1775–1817Jane Austen