Joseph Johnson

Standard Name: Johnson, Joseph

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Textual Production Lucy Aikin
It was published by Joseph JohnsonJoseph Johnson and dedicated to Aikin's friend born Anna Wakefield (who had married her brother Charles Rochemont Aikin , the one among Lucy's brothers whom their aunt Anna Letitia Barbauld had...
Material Conditions of Writing Joanna Baillie
After reaching LondonJB published, anonymously through Joseph Johnson , Poems: Wherein it is attempted to describe Certain Views of Nature and of Rustic Manners . . ..
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25.
1, 26
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
Joseph Johnson anonymously printed A New Map of the Land of Matrimony, Drawn from the Latest Surveys by Anna Letitia Aikin (later Barbauld) .
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
127
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB followed up the success of Lessons for Children with Hymns in Prose for Children, which Joseph Johnson entered in the Stationers' Register on this date.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xliv
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
193
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB published, through Joseph Johnson , Devotional Pieces Compiled from the Psalms and the Book of Job. Johnson advertised it only from December, when the reviews were in.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
162
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
40(1775): 359
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB , Epistle to William Wilberforce , Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade, was entered with the Stationers' Company by Joseph Johnson . It was her first new...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
The literary society of ALB 's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate.
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen.
80
Writers all knew each other and kept in touch; those who did not live in London visited frequently...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
Joseph Johnson did not advertise this work, yet an edition was printed as far away as Dundee. It was popularly priced at sixpence, six months before Hannah More 's Village Politics and nearly three...
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
Here she followed just a few months behind Mary Hays , who had also published a riposte to Wakefield. Close behind the book came the re-issue by Joseph Johnson of a whole bunch of ALB
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
At this date, though the war against France was, from a British point of view, going well, Britain was suffering terribly from its prosecution. Napoleon had not yet swung the balance against himself by invading...
Employer William Blake
Publishers for whom Blake worked as an engraver included the radical Joseph Johnson , friend of Wollstonecraft and others. His wife, Catherine , became for practical purposes a partner in his printing and publishing business...
Friends, Associates Ann Batten Cristall
ABC may have met the poet George Dyer through her brother; Dyer visited at Joshua's London lodgings and had a platonic affection for Elizabeth Cristall, who was living with her brother around 1795.
Roget, John Lewis. A History of the Old Water-Colour Society. Longmans, Green.
1:190, 189
Publishing Ann Batten Cristall
The publisher Joseph Johnson issued by subscription ABC 's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism.
Her title was the same as that of William Blake 's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
R. Hunter , successor to Joseph Johnson , issued ME 's father 's Readings on Poetry, with a preface and final chapter by Maria.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
505
Friends, Associates Maria Edgeworth
In London on this visit ME found comparatively little to interest her. She did, however, visit her publisher Joseph Johnson , whose support for radical writings had put him in the King's Bench Prison...

Timeline

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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