Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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John Chapman
Standard Name: Chapman, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall, 1989. 29, 38 |
| 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, 1985. 106-7 |
| 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, 1985. 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, 1985. 108 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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, 1954, 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 |
| 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, 1996. 61 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
| 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... |
| 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, 1996. 107 |
Timeline
1844: John Chapman founded his own publishing firm...
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1844
John Chapman
founded his own publishing firm in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 92
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).
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 546-7, 617
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