Dinner with Joseph Johnson

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: ...See More