John Chapman

Standard Name: Chapman, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Barbara Leigh Smith began an affair with the married John Chapman , editor of the Westminster Review.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
106-7
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 .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
107
Family and Intimate relationships Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
John Chapman 's final letter to Barbara Leigh Smith ended their relationship.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
109
Family and Intimate relationships Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
In August 1855 BLSB had considered setting up house with Chapman .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
108
Her negative view of marriage made the idea of such an irregular arrangement more palatable to her than it would have been...
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
Employer George Eliot
Marian Evans (later GE ) worked as editor of the Westminster Review (just purchased by Chapman ), which gave her an entrée into London intellectual life, but for which she was paid very little.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
81
Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall.
29, 38
Family and Intimate relationships George Eliot
Here she boarded uncomfortably with publisher John Chapman (who was not yet thirty). She had an intense relationship with him, his wife Susanna (who was older than her husband, and supplemented the family income by...
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...
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
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...
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...
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
from her personal writings, and presented an icon of Victorian moral earnestness; many...
Friends, Associates Mary Howitt
Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen , Tennyson , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Eliza Meteyard , who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens
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
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

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...

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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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