Dinner with Joseph Johnson
Daisy Hay
This audiobook narrated by Kristin Atherton provides 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: a man at the heart of literary life. In this book, Daisy Hay paints a remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age through the connected stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today.
Johnson’s years as a publisher, 1760 to 1809, witnessed profound political, social, cultural and religious changes—from the American and French revolutions to birth of the Romantic age—and many of his dinner guests and authors were at the center of events. The shifting constellation of extraordinary people at Johnson’s table included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, the scientist Joseph Priestly and the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, as well as a group of extraordinary women—Mary Wollstonecraft, the novelist Maria Edgeworth, and the poet Anna Barbauld. These figures pioneered revolutions in science and medicine, proclaimed the rights of women and children and charted the evolution of Britain’s relationship with America and Europe. As external forces conspired to silence their voices, Johnson made them heard by continuing to publish them, just as his table gave them refuge.
A rich work of biography and cultural history, Dinner with Joseph Johnson is an entertaining and enlightening story of a group of people who left an indelible mark on the modern age.
Duration - 22h 27m.
Author - Daisy Hay.
Narrator - Kristin Atherton.
Published Date - Sunday, 07 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2022 Daisy Hay ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
This audiobook narrated by Kristin Atherton provides 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: a man at the heart of literary life. In this book, Daisy Hay paints a remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age through the connected stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today. Johnson’s years as a publisher, 1760 to 1809, witnessed profound political, social, cultural and religious changes—from the American and French revolutions to birth of the Romantic age—and many of his dinner guests and authors were at the center of events. The shifting constellation of extraordinary people at Johnson’s table included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, the scientist Joseph Priestly and the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, as well as a group of extraordinary women—Mary Wollstonecraft, the novelist Maria Edgeworth, and the poet Anna Barbauld. These figures pioneered revolutions in science and medicine, proclaimed the rights of women and children and charted the evolution of Britain’s relationship with America and Europe. As external forces conspired to silence their voices, Johnson made them heard by continuing to publish them, just as his table gave them refuge. A rich work of biography and cultural history, Dinner with Joseph Johnson is an entertaining and enlightening story of a group of people who left an indelible mark on the modern age. Duration - 22h 27m. Author - Daisy Hay. Narrator - Kristin Atherton. Published Date - Sunday, 07 January 2024. Copyright - © 2022 Daisy Hay ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:19:56:34
Part 1
Duration:01:50:54
Chapter 1
Duration:23:17:41
Chapter 2
Duration:16:09:11
Chapter 3
Duration:36:47:49
Chapter 4
Duration:12:16:19
Part 2
Duration:02:32:18
Chapter 5
Duration:19:04:12
Chapter 6
Duration:25:48:48
Chapter 7
Duration:27:38:55
Chapter 8
Duration:51:54:39
Chapter 9
Duration:24:16:12
Chapter 10
Duration:28:35:32
Part 3
Duration:02:05:48
Chapter 11
Duration:51:40:01
Chapter 12
Duration:22:25:15
Chapter 13
Duration:52:46:52
Chapter 14
Duration:35:36:45
Chapter 15
Duration:16:27:06
Part 4
Duration:02:54:10
Chapter 16
Duration:35:03:22
Chapter 17
Duration:51:28:54
Chapter 18
Duration:53:59:49
Part 5
Duration:02:32:20
Chapter 19
Duration:45:05:20
Chapter 20
Duration:43:04:35
Chapter 21
Duration:53:13:55
Part 6
Duration:02:15:39
Chapter 22
Duration:38:39:07
Chapter 23
Duration:08:05:04
Chapter 24
Duration:35:59:29
Chapter 25
Duration:46:58:10
Chapter 26
Duration:36:12:18
Part 7
Duration:01:52:33
Chapter 27
Duration:35:17:55
Chapter 28
Duration:59:12:18
Chapter 29
Duration:35:02:22
Chapter 30 and Closing
Duration:44:19:01