Joseph Johnson

Standard Name: Johnson, Joseph

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Wealth and Poverty Phebe Gibbes
Her applications to the Fund have until the recent researches of David Hopkinson constituted the greater part of the evidence about her life: she became visible only as she became destitute. The Fund helped her...
Textual Production Lucy Aikin
It was published by Joseph JohnsonJoseph Johnson and dedicated to Aikin's friend born Anna Wakefield (who had married her brother Charles Rochemont Aikin , the one among Lucy's brothers whom their aunt Anna Letitia Barbauld had...
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS refused an invitation from radical publisher Joseph Johnson to write a poem deploring the political condition of the country.
Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol.
6 vols.
, A. Constable.
4: 3
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
Biographer Claire Tomalin thinks that MW worked in spring 1795 at editing Marie-Jeanne Roland 's Memoirs, and that this explains why the second edition of the book which Johnson published is so far superior...
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS published through Joseph JohnsonMemoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin , chiefly during his residence at Lichfield, with Anecdotes of his Friends, and Criticisms on his Writings.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
236
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
Joseph Johnson anonymously printed A New Map of the Land of Matrimony, Drawn from the Latest Surveys by Anna Letitia Aikin (later Barbauld) .
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
127
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
From early in her publishing career ME sent out into the world short pieces as well as longer ones and collections of her own. In this way she placed stories in miscellaneous volumes (The...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB followed up the success of Lessons for Children with Hymns in Prose for Children, which Joseph Johnson entered in the Stationers' Register on this date.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
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McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
193
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB published, through Joseph Johnson , Devotional Pieces Compiled from the Psalms and the Book of Job. Johnson advertised it only from December, when the reviews were in.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
162
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
40(1775): 359
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB , Epistle to William Wilberforce , Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade, was entered with the Stationers' Company by Joseph Johnson . It was her first new...
Textual Production Sarah Trimmer
ST published with Joseph Johnson a pedagogical journal entitled the The Guardian of Education.
Heath, Pauline. The works of Mrs. Trimmer (1742-1810). Lambert Academic Publishing.
21n38
O’Malley, Andrew. “The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature”. The Lion and The Unicorn, Vol.
24
, pp. 18-44.
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Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
Joseph Johnson did not advertise this work, yet an edition was printed as far away as Dundee. It was popularly priced at sixpence, six months before Hannah More 's Village Politics and nearly three...
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
Joseph Johnson published MW 's anonymous Original Stories from Real Life, designed for children.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Editor Poston, Carol H., Norton.
358
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
65 (1788): 569
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
MW 's educational anthology, The Female Reader, appeared through Joseph Johnson , under the name of Mr Cresswick, Teacher of Elocution.
An actual Mr Creswick or Cresswick published The Lady's Preceptor in the year he died, 1792.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan.
67
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
Joseph Johnson published Elements of Morality, for the use of children, translated from the German of Christian Gotthilf Salzmann ; MW was the translator, as her signature on the prefixed advertisement attests.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

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.

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-versetranslations of Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey: a version designed to supersede Pope 's translation in heroic couplets.

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.

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.

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