...late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge:—JOHNSON. "She is better employed at her toilet, than using...be reddening her own cheeks, than blackening other peoples characters." 88 Boswell's report does not suggest that Macaulay's interest in her toilet is...

...them. "She is better employed at her toilet, than using her pen," said Johnson. "It is better that she should be reddening her own cheeks, than blackening other people's characters." large stone and, as his foot struck it, announced, "I refute it thus." 18 One Sunday morning Boswell...

...encroaching on male territory; and both issues are indicated in Dr Johnson's reported comment that 'she is better employed at her toilet than using her...reddening her own cheeks, than blackening other people's characters'.1 But despite such discouragement, a number of other women historians continued through...

...aggression. Johnson had recommended cosmetics as a benign replacement for Macaulay's political projects: "She is better employed at her toilet, than using...cheeks than blackening other people's characters" (Boswell, Life 749). But by the 1770s, the dressing table image, with its cosmetics, mirror, and portrait...

...wrote Budgell's papers in the Spectator, at least mended them so much, that he made them almost all his own; and that Draper, Tonson's partner, assured...Johnson, that the much admired Epilogue to The Distressed Mather, which came out in Budgell's name, was in reality written by Addison.' The mode of government...