Dinner With Joseph Johnson Av Daisy Hay

<p><b>*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*</b><br><br><b>In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>''Rich in period and personal detail'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>''Hugely engrossing'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b></p>