Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Joseph Johnson
Standard Name: Johnson, Joseph
Connections
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Employer | William Blake | Publishers for whom Blake worked as an engraver included the radical Joseph Johnson
, friend of Wollstonecraft and others. His wife, Catherine
, became for practical purposes a partner in his printing and publishing business... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Manning | AM
's paternal grandfather, James Manning
, a Unitarian minister at Exeter, employed the radical publisher Joseph Johnson
for at least two publications of a religious nature during the 1790s. “Books with Devon Imprints: a handlist to 1800”. Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History: Books with Local Imprints, 6. |
Friends, Associates | Ann Batten Cristall | ABC
may have met the poet George Dyer
through her brother; Dyer visited at Joshua's London lodgings and had a platonic affection for Elizabeth Cristall, who was living with her brother around 1795. Roget, John Lewis. A History of the Old Water-Colour Society. Longmans, Green, 1891, 2 vols. 1:190, 189 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | MH
first met Mary Wollstonecraft
at the home of Joseph Johnson
. Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, 2004, pp. xv - xx; 1. xvi |
Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | In London on this visit ME
found comparatively little to interest her. She did, however, visit her publisher Joseph Johnson
, whose support for radical writings had put him in the King's Bench Prison... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | On her return to London MW
sought out the publisher Joseph Johnson
, of 72, St Paul's Churchyard, who became her patron, helper, and friend. He introduced her to Sarah Trimmer
, Anna Letitia Barbauld |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | Probably after Mary Wollstonecraft's death, CS
became a friend of William Godwin
, Elizabeth Inchbald
, and Eliza Fenwick
. Also a friend was the publisher Joseph Johnson
. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 261, 288 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The literary society of ALB
's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958. 80 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Joanna Baillie | After reaching LondonJB
published, anonymously through Joseph Johnson
, Poems: Wherein it is attempted to describe Certain Views of Nature and of Rustic Manners . . .. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25. 1, 26 |
Occupation | William Godwin | The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson
: visitors included Germaine de Staël
. It remained, however... |
Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Publishing | Mary Scott | Anna Seward was eagerly awaiting the appearance of this poem in April. Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol. 6 vols. , A. Constable, 1811, 6 vols. 2: 89 |
Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | At this date, though the war against France was, from a British point of view, going well, Britain was suffering terribly from its prosecution. Napoleon
had not yet swung the balance against himself by invading... |
Publishing | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
began writing for Joseph Johnson
's Analytical Review. Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan, 1992. 80 |
Publishing | Phebe Gibbes | It was advertised both before and at publication. The Dublin edition, the same year, also appeared as by a Lady; PG
told the Royal Literary Fund
that the publisher Joseph Johnson
could testify that... |
Timeline
1758: At about the date of the founding of the...
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1758
At about the date of the founding of the Warrington Academy
, the Dissenter William Eyres
set up a family printing press at Warrington in Lancashire.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33. 512
Late 1777: Publisher Joseph Johnson issued the anonymous...
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Late 1777
Publisher Joseph Johnson
issued the anonymous The Laws Respecting Women, in four sections, on the personal rights of women, the property of women, crimes committed by and with women (as well as their corresponding...
By September 1791: William Cowper published, with Joseph Johnson,...
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By September 1791
William Cowper
published, with Joseph Johnson
, his blank-verse translations of Homer
's Iliad and Odyssey: a version designed to supersede Pope
's translation in heroic couplets.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
61 (1791): 845
17 July 1798: Radical publisher Joseph Johnson stood trial...
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17 July 1798
Radical publisher Joseph Johnson
stood trial for publishing the allegedly seditious Reply to Some Parts of the Bishop of Llandaff's Address.
Waters, Mary A. “’The First of a New Genus’: Mary Wollstonecraft as Literary Critic and Mentor to Mary Hays”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 2004, pp. 415-34. 428
After June 1809: Progressive publisher Joseph Johnson died,...
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After June 1809
Progressive publisher Joseph Johnson
died, and his two nephews, John Miles
and Rowland Hunter
, took over the business.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
490
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