Joseph Johnson

Standard Name: Johnson, Joseph

Connections

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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...
Friends, Associates Mary Wollstonecraft
On her return to London MW sought out the publisher Joseph Johnson , of 72, St Paul's Churchyard, who became her patron, helper, and friend. He introduced her to Sarah Trimmer , Anna Letitia Barbauld
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
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...
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
“Books with Devon Imprints: a handlist to 1800”. Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History: Books with Local Imprints, 6.
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...

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