Joseph Johnson

London bookseller and publisher (1738-1809)

  • Fame44.8
  • Momentum0.7
  • Wikipedia575
Source-basedStable
Lived 1738–1809, aged 71
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    12 languages
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  • Era
    1738–1809
    Aged 71
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Updated 2026-06-17

Joseph Johnson 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, Erasmus Darwin 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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44.8
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Momentum0.7
Historical10.3
Source confidence60.0
Completeness40.0
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