Craig White's Literature Courses Critical Sources Samuel Johnson (1709-84) on women preachers

From Thomas Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791):

I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. Johnson: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

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