Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age Hay Daisy
Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age Hay Daisy A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller--from…
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age Hay Daisy
A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller--from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin FranklinOnce a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table. The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller: a man at the heart of literary life. The veal and boiled vegetables may have been unappetising but the company was convivial and the conversation brilliant and unpredictable.
In this book, Daisy Hay paints a remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age through the connected stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today.Johnson's years as a publisher, 1760 to 1809, witnessed profound political, social, cultural and religious changes--from the American and French
Dinner with Joseph Johnson