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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....

*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022*'Hugely engrossing... An exciting blend of ideas and personalities' John Carey, Sunday Times'As immersive and engaging as a multi-plot Victorian novel' Times Literary Supplement'Impressive... [An] elegant account... Dinner with Joseph Johnson reminds us of the excitement of a period in which inherited orthodoxies were forensically scrutinised and found lacking' Daily Telegraph________Once a week, ...

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...

A portrait of a radical age via the writers who gather around a publisher's dining table - from William Wordsworth to Mary WollstonecraftOnce a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table. The veal and boiled vegetables on offer at 72 St Pauls Courtyard may have been unappetising but the company was convivial and the conversation was at once brilliant, unpredictable ...

A portrait of the unconventional marriage between British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and his wife Mary Anne, now in paperback. From the author of "Young Romantics".

The author of "Young Romantics" explores the time, place, objects and manuscripts that influenced or contributed to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". This stripping of the novel down to its constituent parts reveals Mary Shelley from an original perspective.

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A striking literary biography which explores the entangled lives of the circle revolving around Leigh Hunt, which included the Shelleys and Byron. The turmoil of their relationships would ferment to inspire the drama of "Frankenstein", the idealism of Shelley's poetry and Byron's own self-loathing, self-loving public persona.

Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective-celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism. The book focuses on the network of writers and readers who gathered around Percy Bysshe Shelley and the campaigning journalist Leigh Hunt. They included Lord Byron, John Keats, and Mary Shelley,...

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When Mary Anne Lewis met Benjamin Disraeli, she was married to Wyndham Lewis, a rich, mildly successful politician at the center of nineteenth-century British high society. The three became friends and with his deep pockets Wyndham helped Disraeli--young, ambitious, and swimming in debt--get his start in the political arena. Mary Anne even referred to him as her "Parliamentary protégé." But when Wyndham suddenly died of a heart attack, Mary An...