Long listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022
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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784701079Number of pages: 528Weight: 440 gDimensions: 197 x 128 x 34 mm
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'Hay's meticulously researched biography,rich in period and personal detail,sheds light on both Johnson and the vibrant cultural world he inhabited.'- Hannah Beckerman,The Guardian
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