John Maxwell

Publisher John Maxwell launched the Halfpenny Journal to appeal to the educated working class. MEB wrote most of the material: seven or eight anonymous or pseudonymous novels over the next four years.

Having several completed novels in hand, she was able to take it easy in the period following his death; her break from writing at this time was the first since the outset of her career...

The Welcome Guest (published by John Maxwell ) printed MEB 's now well-known ghost story The Cold Embrace, before she had taken up residence in London to live by writing.

MEB and her publisher John Maxwell were living together out of wedlock.

Newspapers spread, apparently at publisher John Maxwell 's behest, the story that he and MEB had recently married; this rumour was soon discredited when his wife's family publicly protested.

As soon after the death of his first wife as he was legally able, John Maxwell finally married MEB , after a thirteen-year common-law relationship.

John Maxwell , publisher and husband of MEB , died of influenza.

While appearing on stage MEB must have found it a challenge to protect herself from unwanted sexual attentions. She attracted the attention, apparently without meeting disapproval from her mother, of newspaper proprietor Charles Bray (who...