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How much older was Elizabeth Porter than Samuel Johnson?

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Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig. — Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson, oil on canvas by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1756; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Elizabeth Porter was 20 years older than Samuel Johnson. The two were married in 1735, a union that provided Johnson with the financial means to open a school in Edial.1