Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
261, 288
Joseph Johnson
Standard Name: Johnson, Joseph
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. |
| 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 | 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. |
| Publishing | Anna Seward | She had at first been commissioned, after Erasmus Darwin's death in 1802, merely to provide anecdotes for someone else's biography. She decided, however, that it would be better to write the work herself. Her cousin... |
| 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. 2: 89 |
| 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. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. “Books with Devon Imprints: a handlist to 1800”. Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History: Books with Local Imprints, 6. |
| Textual Production | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | MEJ
, writing as a Lady but with mention of her first book, issued her Botanical Lectures, again with Joseph Johnson
. Here she aimed to cross the divide Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press. 111 |
| Textual Production | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | This book appeared, like her next, as by a Lady; the British Library
copy (filmed for Eighteenth Century Collections Online) has a manuscript note identifying the author on the printed testimony of Erasmus... |
| 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, pp. xv - xx; 1. xvi |
| 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 | 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 Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen. 476 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
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