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John Maxwell
Standard Name: Maxwell, John
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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
. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 202 |
Travel | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | In June of 1874 MEB
and John Maxwell
went on a two-week tour of Ireland. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 248, 250-1 |
Residence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | In the later 1870s MEB
and John Maxwell
built a country home in the New Forest, in the village of Bank (or Annesley Bank). Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 260 |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | After Maxwell
retired in 1887, his publishing house still covered their household expenses, and MEB
saved all of her substantial earnings from her writing. In 1893 she purchased yet another house near her family's estate... |
Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She left a remarkably large estate for a Victorian woman writer. Despite the high style in which she lived, she was reportedly able from early in her career to save her literary earnings, since money... |
Reception | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | After this bad beginning, the book garnered no critical attention until MEB
revised and reissued it in 1861, after the publication of Lady Audley's Secret, as The Trail of the Serpent. Sales were... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Further early short fiction by MEB
appeared in The Welcome Guest, a John Maxwell
publication that sold for twopence and aimed at the educated working classes. My Daughters, which appeared on 20 October... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | From late 1861 MEB
published in her future husband John Maxwell
's Temple Bar, edited by George Augustus Sala
, a periodical which aimed to compete with the prestigious Cornhill Magazine. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 115-17 |
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. 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. 41 Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 251 |
Timeline
1843: John Maxwell founded his own publishing house...
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1843
John Maxwell
founded his own publishing house in London.
December 1860: Following on the heels of the successful...
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December 1860
Following on the heels of the successful Cornhill Magazine, publisher John Maxwell
created Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers.
1875: Charles Reade dedicated his novel The Wandering...
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1875
Charles Reade
dedicated his novelThe Wandering Heir to Mary Elizabeth Braddonas a slight mark of respect for her private virtues and public talents.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
250
1876: John Maxwell sold Belgravia to Chatto and...
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1876
John Maxwell
sold Belgravia to Chatto and Windus
, ending Mary Elizabeth Braddon
's association with the monthly.
Texts
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