Richard Johnson (1573 – c. 1659) was a British
romance
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writer. All that is known of his biography is from internal evidence in his works: he was a London apprentice in the 1590s, and a freeman after 1600.
Works
Johnson's most famous work is ''
The Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom'' (c. 1596). He added a second and a third part in 1608 and 1616.
His other stories include:
* ''
Nine Worthies of London
''Nine Worthies of London'' is a book by Richard Johnson, the English romance writer, written in 1592. Borrowing the theme from the Nine Worthies of Antiquity, the book, subtitled ''Explaining the Honourable Excise of Armes, the Vertues of the ...
'' (1592);
* ''The Pleasant Walks of Moorefields'' (1607);
* ''The Pleasant Conceites of Old Hobson'' (1607), the hero being a well-known haberdasher in the Poultry;
* ''
The Most Pleasant History of Tom a Lincolne'' (1607);
* ''A Remembrance of
Robert Earle of Salisbury'' (1612);
* ''Looke on Me, London'' (1613);
* ''The History of
Tom Thumb
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e'' (1621).
''The Crown Garland of Golden Roses set forth in Many Pleasant new Songs and Sonnets'' (1612) was reprinted for the
Percy Society
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The Society was a scholarly collective, aimed at publishing limited-edition books of rare poems and songs. The president was Lady Braybrooke, a ...
in 1842 and 1845. It includes the earliest surviving printed version of the story of
Dick Whittington and His Cat
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1573 births
1650s deaths
British romantic fiction writers
16th-century male writers
17th-century male writers
16th-century English novelists
17th-century English novelists
Writers of Arthurian literature
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