John Maxwell

KSM first reached print with a short story in a recently-launched periodical, The Welcome Guest, A Magazine for All.

This was the date of the first number of John Maxwell 's St. James's Magazine, which appeared under the editorship of AMH .

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.

The full title was Lucius Davoren; or, Publicans and Sinners, and it too appeared as by the author of Lady Audley's Secret. This contract left her free to earn additional money for the...

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.

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.

John Maxwell began publishing the monthly Belgravia: A London Magazine, primarily to include the work of his partner Mary Elizabeth Braddon : she was its editor for ten years, and wrote most of its fiction.

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...