On 24 August 1795Erasmus Darwin
and Sir Brooke Boothby
wrote a joint letter to Maria Jacson in praise of Botanical Dialogues, which they had read in manuscript. They even expressed the hope that...
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
ME
published with her intials, through Joseph Johnson
, her first sizeable book of fiction for the young, The Parent's Assistant.
This seems to have been its publication date, though it was advertised as...
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
ME
worked at Leonora, an epistolary novel published by Joseph Johnson
by February 1806.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 231
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
200-1, 505
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
ME
published with Joseph Johnson
her first collection of short fiction intended for adults: Popular Tales, some of them written before 1800.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 188
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
287
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
This work was published by Joseph Johnson
, who paid her forty pounds for it.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
492
He or his heirs remained ME
's regular publishers.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
490-1
This book arose from her need to confute the...
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
The publisher was, as usual, Joseph Johnson
. ME
received in all two hundred and sixty pounds for it.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
492
Her name appeared on the title-page. There were seventeen editions by 1848.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
491n4
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
She wrote Ormond (120,000 words) in three months; her father
wrote an address to the reader for it a few days before he died.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
290
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 445
The three volumes containing the two titles were...
Textual Production
Mary Hays
MH
published with Joseph Johnson
a book for children, Harry Clinton: A Tale for Youth, a historical work adapted from Henry Brooke
's The Fool of Quality.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon.
247
Textual Production
Mary Hays
The work was published by Joseph Johnson
. The preface says the author began this work some years previously (in 1790 or 1791), and dropped it when she read Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of...
Textual Production
Regina Maria Roche
The future RMR
published through Joseph Johnson
(with her birth name given as Maria Regina Dalton) her first novel, The Vicar of Lansdowne; or, Country Quarters. A Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 483
Textual Production
Charlotte Smith
CS
's Beachy Head, Fables, and Other Poems appeared, through Joseph Johnson
, three months after her death.
Her biographers Hilbish
(1941) and Fletcher
(1998) both say the title-poem was the last thing she...
France and Britain had been at war since the first of February, and the fast was held for the sake of the war. Church of England
bishops composed a form of prayer for the occasion...
Timeline
1777: John Howard, with The State of the Prisons...
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1777
John Howard
, with The State of the Prisons in England and Wales (printed by William Eyres
at Warrington and sold by Joseph Johnson
in London) initiated a movement for prison reform.
1784: Henry Fearon, surgeon, published A Treatise...
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1784
Henry Fearon
, surgeon, published A Treatise on Cancers, with a New and Successful Method of Operating, Particularly in Cancers of the Breast and Testis.
1785: Dr George Gregory (friend of Elizabeth Hamilton)...