Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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John Chapman
Standard Name: Chapman, John
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Travel | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB
) travelled to Rome to recuperate from a breakdown in some way associated with her affair with John Chapman
. |
| Textual Production | George Eliot | The first number of the Westminster Review to appear under her anonymous (and unpaid) editorship was that of January 1852, which was also the first under John Chapman
's ownership. One of her own contributions... |
| Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | These collections supply parts of HM
's correspondence with Matthew Arnold
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
, John Chapman
, Maria Weston Chapman
, Anne Jemima Clough
, Samuel Courtauld
, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Textual Features | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | This inexpensive pamphlet, which was published by John Chapman
, pulls no punches in its outline of women's legal position, and piles up case-histories of women suffering natural injustice at their husbands' hands. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 71 Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith. A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women. John Chapman. title page |
| Residence | Eliza Lynn Linton | In November 1846, she was staying in the bohemian household of the young publisher and editor John Chapman
. She lived in London for thirteen years. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 61 Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton. 35 |
| Publishing | George Eliot | She had negotiated forcefully with Chapman
over the division of profits from this work in December 1853. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 107 |
| Publishing | George Eliot | GE
finished her last major article for the Westminster (on eighteenth-century poet Edward Young
) in December 1856. Despite Chapman
's offer to pay her twelve guineas a sheet from now on, her last work... |
| Publishing | Eliza Lynn Linton | She intended this novel to open the eyes of its readers to the oppression of women. Her hopes were very high: I confidently expect a success equal to Jane Eyre. This may sound vain... |
| Publishing | Harriet Martineau | When Edward Lombe
, a wealthy follower of Comte, learned of the project, he sent HM
£500. From this she paid for the printing expenses and took £200 for her own payment. She also arranged... |
| Publishing | Harriet Martineau | In 1855 HM
's pamphlet entitled The Factory Controversy, A Warning Against Meddling Legislation, was issued by the National Association of Factory Occupiers
(based in Manchester, where it was published). She had initially... |
| Publishing | George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans had been reading Das Leben Jesu by David Friedrich Strauss
when she was persuaded by her new circle of liberal friends at Coventry to take on the task of translating it into... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Eliza Lynn Linton | She wrote this while living in John Chapman
's house in London and reading Egyptology in the British Museum
. She paid fifty pounds to secure its publication. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 61 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Cross
, concerned to protect and dignify her, chose the more sententious passages and excluded the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks Eliot, George. “Preface”. The George Eliot Letters, edited by Gordon S. Haight, Yale University Press, p. 1: ix - lxxvii. xiv |
| Literary responses | George Henry Lewes | A hostile notice by T. H. Huxley
in the Westminster Review (owned by John Chapman
) dismissed Lewes as an amateur and ranked his book below Harriet Martineau
's recent abridgement of Comte. George Eliot |
| Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley
felt that the author was now raving like a pagan Pythoness—the female oracle whose pronouncements were not expected to be comprehensible: There is a positive untruth to the very... |
Timeline
1844: John Chapman founded his own publishing firm...
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1844
John Chapman
founded his own publishing firm in London.
January 1852: Publisher John Chapman purchased the Westminster...
Writing climate item
January 1852
Publisher John Chapman
purchased the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly and began issuing it as the Westminster Review (which, twenty-eight years and several mergers back, had been its original name).
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