*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
| ISBN: | 9781784701079 |
| Publication date: | 3rd August 2023 |
| Author: | Daisy Hay |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: writers Publishing and book trade Social and cultural history Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
*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
Dinner With Joseph Johnson features in the following genres: Biography: writers, Publishing and book trade, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Dinner With Joseph Johnson is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
Dinner With Joseph Johnson was written by Daisy Hay and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Dinner With Joseph Johnson has 384 pages
£9.89