John Maxwell

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...

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

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...

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.

The same Gazette piece also drew attention to John Maxwell 's dubious advertising practices. A minor scandal ensued in a number of journals, fuelled by a forged letter from MEB as editor, claiming ignorance...

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.

Periodicals were vital to MEB 's career from the beginning. Having set out by regularly contributing sensational fiction to the Halfpenny Journal, she continued to provide articles in, for example, Punch and The World...

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