One man's monumental attempt to fix and define the whole English tongue, his wit and prejudice included.
Books that mention A Dictionary of the English Language (3)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray: “in the fly-leaf of a Johnson's Dictionary--the interesting work which she invariably presented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall.”
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell: “Miss Matty said that she had her Bible and “Johnson’s Dictionary,” and should not have much time for reading”
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke: “Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.”