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Joseph Johnson (publisher)
Joseph Johnson
(15 November 1738 – 20 December 1809) was an influential 18th-century
London
bookseller
and
publisher
. His publications covered a wide variety of genres and a broad spectrum of opinions on important issues. Johnson is best known for publishing the works of radical thinkers such as
Mary Wollstonecraft
,
William Godwin
,
Thomas Malthus
, and
Joel Barlow
, feminist economist
Priscilla Wakefield
, as well as religious
dissenters
such as
Joseph Priestley
,
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
,
Gilbert Wakefield
, and
George Walker
.
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