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...
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
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...
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Sarah Trimmer
ST
published with Longman
, Robinson
, and JohnsonThe Sunday-School Catechist, Consisting of Familiar Lectures, with Questions, for the use of visiters [sic] and teachers.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
66 (1788): 248
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Anne Damer
AD
published with Joseph Johnson
her three-volume novel Belmour, an intelligent didactic tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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The whole title was a long one: The Œconomy of Charity; or, an Address to Ladies concerning Sunday-Schools...
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Anne Damer
An anonymous novel was published in three volumes by Johnson
, entitled Letters of Miss Riversdale, which Charlotte Smith
ascribed to AD
.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 163
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Mary Wollstonecraft
During the same year, 1790, Johnson
published Young Grandison. A Series of Letters from Young Persons to Their Friends, MW
's free rendering of a Richardson
-inspired juvenile conduct book by the Dutchwoman Maria Geertruida van de Werken de Cambon
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Maria Edgeworth
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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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)...