Joseph Johnson

Standard Name: Johnson, Joseph

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Publishing Eliza Fenwick
This pseudonym was one of several names much used by the publisher, Richard Phillips , for books which have been supposed to be of his own composition. Phillips was a friend and associate of the...
Publishing Susanna Watts
It has not been traced. Edgeworth also reported: My father is afraid, though she has considerable talents, to recommend her to Johnson , lest she should not answer.
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook.
The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...
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...
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
Here she followed just a few months behind Mary Hays , who had also published a riposte to Wakefield. Close behind the book came the re-issue by Joseph Johnson of a whole bunch of ALB
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 Hays
The Analytical assignment was useful in bringing her into contact with Joseph Johnson (as her Monthly reviewing had made her acquainted with Richard Phillips and her Critical work had made her acquainted with George Robinson
Publishing Ann Batten Cristall
The publisher Joseph Johnson issued by subscription ABC 's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism.
Her title was the same as that of William Blake 's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha
Publishing Mary Hays
Johnson commissioned her to write this work.
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, pp. 415-34.
426
MH dedicated it to her nephew Henry Hays Dunkin .
Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen.
476
Publishing Mary Wollstonecraft
MW began writing for Joseph Johnson 's Analytical Review.
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan.
80
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
Joseph Johnson paid three hundred pounds for this study of vocational teaching for boys.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
492
It had taken ME two years' hard and sometimes uncongenial labour.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
210
Publishing Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
She wrote it in summer 1805 as a guest at Longford House near Sligo.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books.
158
In a preface written for a later edition she said that at the time it appeared it was dangerous...
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...
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, pp. 1-25.
1, 26
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.
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.
80
Writers all knew each other and kept in touch; those who did not live in London visited frequently...

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