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43: Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Slightly Foxed

Oct 15, 202259:37Arts

Bookseller, publisher, Dissenter and dinner-party host, Joseph Johnson was a great enabler in the late 18th-century literary landscape . . . Daisy Hay is the author of Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in...

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