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Homage to Joseph Johnson, the radical 18th-century publisher

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

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

Chatto & Windus, pp.512, 25

There’s no excuse for dullness, especially when writing about a life as eventful as Joseph Johnson’s, the publisher and bookseller who worked with Mary Wollstonecraft, Joseph Priestley, William Cowper, Erasmus Darwin and Wordsworth and Coleridge, among others. I opened this book expecting it to lift the veil on dinner with Joseph Johnson, but the title’s a misnomer.

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