Joseph Johnson

Standard Name: Johnson, Joseph

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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/.
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
MW published anonymously, through Joseph Johnson , her first novel, Mary: A Fiction.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
66 (1788): 74
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
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
Joseph Johnson brought out, anonymously, MW 's A Vindication of the Rights of Men, the first published answer to Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan.
84
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Editor Poston, Carol H., Norton.
358
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
Johnson published MW 's Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, written during her affair with Imlay .
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan.
152-3
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin.
210, 214
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Editor Poston, Carol H., Norton.
359
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
Johnson published MW 's Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan.
177
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
Publishing Mary Wollstonecraft
Joseph Johnson became MW 's patron and friend as well as her publisher. He offered her accommodation in exchange for literary work when she came back to London from Ireland; he found her somewhere to...
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 Features Mary Wollstonecraft
They included The first book of a series of lessons for children (written for MW 's elder daughter, Fanny Imlay ); a series of personal letters addressed to Imlay (passionately expressive, ruggedly self-analytical), and to...
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...
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.
18
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...

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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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