Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Joseph Johnson
Standard Name: Johnson, Joseph
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. “Books with Devon Imprints: a handlist to 1800”. Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History: Books with Local Imprints, 6. |
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 |
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... |
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
. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 261, 288 |
Publishing | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | She wrote it in summer 1805 as a guest at Longford House near Sligo. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 158 |
Textual Production | Sarah Trimmer | ST
published with Joseph Johnson
a pedagogical journal entitled the The Guardian of Education. Heath, Pauline. The works of Mrs. Trimmer (1742-1810). Lambert Academic Publishing. 21n38 O’Malley, Andrew. “The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature”. The Lion and The Unicorn, Vol. 24 , pp. 18-44. 18 |
Publishing | Susanna Watts | It has not been traced. Edgeworth also reported: My father
is afraid, though she has considerable talents, to recommend her to Johnson
, lest she should not answer. Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook. |
Publishing | Mary Wollstonecraft | Joseph Johnson
became MW
's patron and friend as well as her publisher. He offered her accommodation in exchange for literary work when she came back to London from Ireland; he found her somewhere to... |
Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | Biographer Claire Tomalin
thinks that MW
worked in spring 1795 at editing Marie-Jeanne Roland
's Memoirs, and that this explains why the second edition of the book which Johnson
published is so far superior... |
Textual Features | Mary Wollstonecraft | They included The first book of a series of lessons for children (written for MW
's elder daughter, Fanny Imlay
); a series of personal letters addressed to Imlay
(passionately expressive, ruggedly self-analytical), and to... |
Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | Joseph Johnson
published MW
's anonymous Original Stories from Real Life, designed for children. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Editor Poston, Carol H., Norton. 358 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 65 (1788): 569 |
Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
's educational anthology, The Female Reader, appeared through Joseph Johnson
, under the name of Mr Cresswick, Teacher of Elocution. An actual Mr Creswick or Cresswick published The Lady's Preceptor in the year he died, 1792. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan. 67 |
Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | Joseph Johnson
published Elements of Morality, for the use of children, translated from the German of Christian Gotthilf Salzmann
; MW
was the translator, as her signature on the prefixed advertisement attests. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
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