Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Hay, Daisy
Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Hay, Daisy

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A portrait of a radical age via the writers who gather around a publisher's dining table - from William Wordsworth to Mary Wollstonecraft

*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*

In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.

The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller and he was joined at dinner by a shifting constellation of great minds including William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Henry Fuseli, Anna Barbauld and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Johnson's years as a maker of books saw profound change in Britain and abroad. In this remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age, Daisy Hay captures a changing nation through the stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today.

'Rich in period and personal detail' Guardian

'Hugely engrossing' Sunday Times

Author:   Hay, Daisy
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
ISBN:  

9781784701079


Pages:   528
Publication Date:   21 November 2023
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
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A portrait of a radical age via the writers who gather around a publisher's dining table - from William Wordsworth to Mary Wollstonecraft

*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*

In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.

The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller and he was joined at dinner by a shifting constellation of great minds including William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Henry Fuseli, Anna Barbauld and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Johnson's years as a maker of books saw profound change in Britain and abroad. In this remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age, Daisy Hay captures a changing nation through the stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today.

'Rich in period and personal detail' Guardian

'Hugely engrossing' Sunday Times

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Author:   Hay, Daisy
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
ISBN:  

9781784701079


Pages:   528
Publication Date:   21 November 2023
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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