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"""Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction"" ""Enthralling. . . . Dinner with Joseph Johnson is more than a richly detailed character profile: It also comprises a sharply realized group portrait of those whom Johnson wined, dined and gave voice to.""---Malcolm Forbes, Wall Street Journal ""[A] compelling and magnificent study. . . . Dinner with Joseph Johnson is an admirable achievement of biography and humanistic imagination.""---Kathryn Sutherland, Times Literary Supplement ""Hay has produced an enlightening biography. Her detailed portrait of Johnson illuminates the considerable risks faced by a London publisher bold enough to defy the repressive laws issued by the nervous British government at a time when revolution seemed worryingly likely to spread from France to England.""---Miranda Seymour, New York Review of Books ""Hugely engrossing. . . . An exciting blend of ideas and personalities.""---John Carey, Sunday Times ""Dinner with Joseph Johnson evokes the noise and excitement of an age characterized by the unceasing hum of literary debate. . . . A fitting reflection of the period that Hay describes: a time when the written word could make someone’s name—or cost them their liberty.""---Francesca Peacock, Financial Times ""Hay's meticulously researched biography, rich in period and personal detail, sheds light on both Johnson the man and the vibrant cultural world he inhabited.""---Hannah Beckerman, The Guardian ""Hay makes the most of a vivid period in English and especially London history. Her carefully poised study puts Johnson, today an obscure figure, back at the center of his circle.""---Rosemary Hill, London Review of Books ""[A] delightful book.""---​​​​​​​Emma Duncan, The Times ""Dinner with Joseph Johnson is a portrait of literary ferment. . . . [It] reminds us of the excitement of a period in which inherited orthodoxies were forensically scrutinised and found lacking. And it offers us pause for thought.""---Matthew Dennison, The Telegraph ""As a bookseller, Johnson’s lists ranged widely, covering topics such as cookery, gardening, education and theology alongside the bread-and-butter of politics and poetry. Hay’s book follows Johnson’s lead. The result is equal parts panoramic and kaleidoscopic, marching along some of the less-trod paths of the Romantic era.""---Joseph Hone, History Today ""[An] illuminating account. . . . Hay’s is a fascinating take on the intellectual and political development of the time. Fans of literary history will relish this opportunity to pull up a seat at Johnson’s table."" * Publishers Weekly * ""Dinner with Joseph Johnson is a beautifully packaged, skillfully written and detailed book that finally gives this gentle revolutionary the recognition he deserves.""---Jacqueline Riding, Country Life"

"""Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction"" ""Enthralling. . . . Dinner with Joseph Johnson is more than a richly detailed character profile: It also comprises a sharply realized group portrait of those whom Johnson wined, dined and gave voice to.""---Malcolm Forbes, Wall Street Journal ""[A] compelling and magnificent study. . . . Dinner with Joseph Johnson is an admirable achievement of biography and humanistic imagination.""---Kathryn Sutherland, Times Literary Supplement ""Hay has produced an enlightening biography. Her detailed portrait of Johnson illuminates the considerable risks faced by a London publisher bold enough to defy the repressive laws issued by the nervous British government at a time when revolution seemed worryingly likely to spread from France to England.""---Miranda Seymour, New York Review of Books ""Hugely engrossing. . . . An exciting blend of ideas and personalities.""---John Carey, Sunday Times ""Dinner with Joseph Johnson evokes the noise and excitement of an age characterized by the unceasing hum of literary debate. . . . A fitting reflection of the period that Hay describes: a time when the written word could make someone’s name—or cost them their liberty.""---Francesca Peacock, Financial Times ""Hay's meticulously researched biography, rich in period and personal detail, sheds light on both Johnson the man and the vibrant cultural world he inhabited.""---Hannah Beckerman, The Guardian ""Hay makes the most of a vivid period in English and especially London history. Her carefully poised study puts Johnson, today an obscure figure, back at the center of his circle.""---Rosemary Hill, London Review of Books ""[A] delightful book.""---​​​​​​​Emma Duncan, The Times ""Dinner with Joseph Johnson is a portrait of literary ferment. . . . [It] reminds us of the excitement of a period in which inherited orthodoxies were forensically scrutinised and found lacking. And it offers us pause for thought.""---Matthew Dennison, The Telegraph ""As a bookseller, Johnson’s lists ranged widely, covering topics such as cookery, gardening, education and theology alongside the bread-and-butter of politics and poetry. Hay’s book follows Johnson’s lead. The result is equal parts panoramic and kaleidoscopic, marching along some of the less-trod paths of the Romantic era.""---Joseph Hone, History Today ""[An] illuminating account. . . . Hay’s is a fascinating take on the intellectual and political development of the time. Fans of literary history will relish this opportunity to pull up a seat at Johnson’s table."" * Publishers Weekly * ""Dinner with Joseph Johnson is a beautifully packaged, skillfully written and detailed book that finally gives this gentle revolutionary the recognition he deserves.""---Jacqueline Riding, Country Life ""A panorama of the intellectual life of a Revolutionary age. . . . This is a perfect bedside book."" * Choice Reviews *"

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Daisy Hay is an award-winning biographer whose previous books include Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives and Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance. She is professor of English literature and life writing at the University of Exeter.

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