Daisy Hay is an award-winning biographer whose previous work includes Young Romantics- The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives and Mr and Mrs Disraeli- A Strange Romance. She began her writing career as a doctoral student and then a Bye-Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge before moving to Oxford where she held the Alistair Horne Fellowship at St Antony's College and a Visiting Scholarship at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College. She has also held a Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard. In 2016 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust and in 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is currently Associate Professor in English Literature and Life Writing at the University of Exeter and lives in Devon with her family.
Hay's meticulously researched biography, rich in period and
personal detail, sheds light on both Johnson and the vibrant
cultural world he inhabited
*Guardian*
[A] compelling and magnificent study... Dinner with Joseph Johnson
is an admirable achievement of biography and humanistic
imagination
*Times Literary Supplement*
Dinner with Joseph Johnson sheds much-needed light on a key figure
in both the ideological and material context of the 18th century...
Hay's meticulous research brings this "paper age" to life... Evokes
the noise and excitement of an age characterised 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
*Financial Times*
This delightful book by the English literature professor Daisy Hay
gives the reader the feeling of being at a rather elevated party...
Johnson's guests talked, wrote and painted about democracy, human
rights, atheism, feminism, anatomy, chemistry and electricity.
While dreaming of a better future, they befriended each other,
loved each other and criticised each other... shaped an era...
Johnson was a brilliant talent spotter and supported the best minds
of his day
*The Times*
A portrait of literary ferment... Daisy Hay's compendious and
impressive survey illuminates the contribution to these significant
ideological shifts of the ill-assorted men and women whose kinship
was marked by their shared participation in Joseph Johnson's
hospitality
*Daily Telegraph*
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