Mary Morley Eccles, Viscountess Eccles was an American-British book collector and author. She was renowned for establishing one of the largest private collections of 18th century literature with her f
Eccles in her library at Four Oaks Farm in Somerville, New Jersey
The Hyde Room at Houghton Library, Harvard University
The Misses Garrick by the Thames at Hampton by Johann Zoffany (1733–1810)
Captain John Stanley by Thomas Gainsborough
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, an
Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles
…renowned for establishing one of the largest private collections of 18th century literature with her first husband, Donald Hyde. This includes works from Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. She also created an Oscar Wilde Collection which was bequeathed to the British Library in 2003. An obituary described her as 'one…
Portrait c. 1772
Johnson's birthplace in Market Square, Lichfield
Entrance of Pembroke College, Oxford
Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, Johnson's wife