John Chapman

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.

Barbara Leigh Smith began an affair with the married John Chapman , editor of the Westminster Review.

John Chapman 's final letter to Barbara Leigh Smith ended their relationship.

In August 1855 BLSB had considered setting up house with Chapman . Her negative view of marriage made the idea of such an irregular arrangement more palatable to her than it would have been...

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...

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

Cross , concerned to protect and dignify her, chose the more sententious passages and excluded the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks from her personal writings, and presented an icon of Victorian moral earnestness; many...

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

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...

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.

She had negotiated forcefully with Chapman over the division of profits from this work in December 1853.

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...

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...

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...

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...