Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

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• ISBN 10: 0691243972
• ISBN 13: 9780691243979
• Author: Daisy Hay

A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin Once a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table. The veal and boiled vegetables may have been unappetising but the company was convivial and the conversation brilliant and unpredictable. The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller: a man at the heart of literary life. In this book, Daisy Hay paints a remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age through the connected stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today. Johnson’s years as a publisher, 1760 to 1809, witnessed profound political, social, cultural and religious changes—from the American and French revolutions to birth of the Romantic age—and many of his dinner guests and authors were at the center of events. The shifting constellation of extraordinary people at Johnson’s table included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, the scientist Joseph Priestly and the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, as well as a group of extraordinary women—Mary Wollstonecraft, the novelist Maria Edgeworth, and the poet Anna Barbauld. These figures pioneered revolutions in science and medicine, proclaimed the rights of women and children and charted the evolution of Britain’s relationship with America and Europe. As external forces conspired to silence their voices, Johnson made them heard by continuing to publish them, just as his table gave them refuge. A rich work of biography and cultural history, Dinner with Joseph Johnson is an entertaining and enlightening story of a group of people who left an indelible mark on the modern age.

Table of contents:

1. Part One: Fire (1760–1770)
2. 1. Authentic Narrative
3. 2. Domestic Occurrences
4. 3. The Enquirer
5. 4. London
6. Part Two: Riot (1770–1780)
7. 5. Joineriana
8. 6. Freethinker
9. 7. Essays Medical and Experimental
10. 8. Paint and Washes
11. 9. The American War Lamented
12. 10. Thoughts on the Devotional Taste
13. Part Three: Revolt (1780–1789)
14. 11. The Task
15. 12. Trade Winds
16. 13. Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
17. 14. The Paper Age
18. 15. Aphorisms on Man
19. Part Four: Ruins (1789–1791)
20. 16. On Liberty
21. 17. Original Stories
22. 18. Views of the Ruins
23. Part Five: Refuge (1791–1795)
24. 19. Evenings at Home
25. Plates
26. 20. Things as They Are
27. 21. Things by their Right Names
28. Part Six: Cave (1792–1799)
29. 22. Paradise Lost
30. 23. Vindication of the Rights of Woman
31. 24. Original Poetry
32. 25. A peep into the Cave of Jacobinism
33. 26. The King Versus Joseph Johnson
34. Part Seven: House (1799–1809)
35. 27. Idyllium. The Prison
36. 28. Essays on Professional Education
37. 29. Lycidas
38. 30. Beachy Head

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