Frances Wilson

Demonised Barber of Fleet Street

Dr Johnson’s Jamaican man-servant remains Gough Square’s invisible man, despite Michael Bundock’s years of research

Portrait thought to be of Francis Barber by Sir Joshua Reynolds. THE BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY

  • The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir

    Michael Bundock

    Yale, pp. 296

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