![]() ![]() ![]() Members of Johnson's circle hurried to Paris in the summer of 1789 and returned with enthusiastic accounts, hoping that a similar revolution might take place in Britain. As a kind of surrogate daughter to Johnson, Wollstonecraft became part of one of the most forward-looking intellectual circles in Britain. Paul's Churchyard was a focal point for London Dissenters and radicals. In 1787 she began working as a writer and translator for Joseph Johnson, a Dissenter and radical publisher whose home and bookshop at St. Richard Price, then in his sixties, who was one of the leading radical intellectuals of the day. From 1784 to 1785 she had lived in Newington Green, where she came under the influence of the Dissenting preacher Dr. When the fall of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 signaled to the world that something extraordinary was taking place in France, Mary Wollstonecraft was already in a position, intellectually and socially, to respond with enthusiasm. ![]()
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