Joseph Johnson

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...

Joseph Johnson paid a hundred pounds for it.

This pseudonym was one of several names much used by the publisher, Richard Phillips , for books which have been supposed to be of his own composition. Phillips was a friend and associate of the...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

MW began writing for Joseph Johnson 's Analytical Review.

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

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

The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson : visitors included Germaine de Staël . It remained, however...

After reaching LondonJB published, anonymously through Joseph Johnson , Poems: Wherein it is attempted to describe Certain Views of Nature and of Rustic Manners . . ..

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.

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...