{"product_id":"books-dinner-with-joseph-johnson-by-daisy-hay","title":"Dinner with Joseph Johnson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohnson'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Rich in period and personal detail' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hugely engrossing' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53769021849873,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781784701079.jpg?v=1783948605","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-dinner-with-joseph-johnson-by-daisy-hay","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}