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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...
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, 1996.
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Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1899.
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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, 1985.
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Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith. A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women. John Chapman, 1854.
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...
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, 1985.