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Allan Ingram Boswell Reading Boswell: A Chapter in Autobiographical Misconstruction James Boswell, like any contemporary Scottish or English gentleman, was a wide reader, schooled in the classics and, of course, in the greats of the vernacular, especially Shakespeare, Addison and, of his immediate contemporaries, Johnson. Boswell’s reading, however, was not at all systematic, or systematisable. Except in his legal practice, where he often records reading solidly and unenthusiastically for a p..