Joseph Johnson

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...

MW began writing for Joseph Johnson 's Analytical Review.

It was advertised both before and at publication. The Dublin edition, the same year, also appeared as by a Lady; PG told the Royal Literary Fund that the publisher Joseph Johnson could testify that...

The publisher Joseph Johnson issued by subscription ABC 's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism.

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

Johnson commissioned her to write this work.MH dedicated it to her nephew Henry Hays Dunkin .

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...

Joseph Johnson paid three hundred pounds for this study of vocational teaching for boys. It had taken ME two years' hard and sometimes uncongenial labour.

She herself called this not a novel but a moral tale—a genre-name she had just used for a volume of stories for children. It grew from an earlier sketch (which has been in print since...

Her father did not know of its existence till after publication.Joseph Johnson paid a hundred pounds for it.

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. The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...

She wrote it in summer 1805 as a guest at Longford House near Sligo. In a preface written for a later edition she said that at the time it appeared it was dangerous...

ME received nine hundred pounds for these volumes. In 1810 Henry Colburn published another three volumes of tales which he implicitly asserted to be Edgeworth's sequel. Her publisher immediately protested.

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...

From early in her publishing career ME sent out into the world short pieces as well as longer ones and collections of her own. In this way she placed stories in miscellaneous volumes (The...