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under Lant Carpenter
His father left the family after his business...
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.
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