John Maxwell

Standard Name: Maxwell, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB and her publisher John Maxwell were living together out of wedlock.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
103
Publishing Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A subplot excised in revision as Henry Dunbar was recycled into the short story Lost and Found: this removed the bigamy and blackmail from the novel. This time the novel in book form was...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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.
His wife's brother-in-law, Richard Brinsley Knowles
Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A small scandal erupted in 1867 when the Athenæum pointed out that MEB 's Nobody's Daughter; or, The Ballad-Singer of Wapping, was in fact the same as the previously serialised Diavola; or, The Woman's...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief Chronology”. Aurora Floyd, edited by Richard Nemesvari and Lisa Surridge, Broadview, 1998.
41
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
251
Reception Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The same Gazette piece also drew attention to John Maxwell 's dubious advertising practices.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
211
A minor scandal ensued in a number of journals, fuelled by a forged letter from MEB as editor, claiming ignorance...
Textual Production Anna Maria Hall
This was the date of the first number of John Maxwell 's St. James's Magazine, which appeared under the editorship of AMH .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
202
Textual Production Katharine S. Macquoid
KSM first reached print with a short story in a recently-launched periodical, The Welcome Guest, A Magazine for All.
Her publications here and later in Temple Bar and Belgravia magazines suggest a sustained connection...

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