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142 Strand – A Radical Address in Victorian London

142 Strand was the home of the brilliant and unconventional young publisher John Chapman. All the daring and avant-garde writers and thinkers of Victorian London gathered here, among them Thomas Carlyle, Dickens, Thackery, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and the scientist Thomas Henry Huxley (Darwin’™s ‘˜bulldog’™), as well as radical feminists like Barbara Leigh Smith, later founder of Girton College, Cambridge- centred around this address, all of them contributing to Chapman’™s campaigning ‘œWestminster Review” and attended his lively evening parties. In 1851 Chapman brought Marian Evans (the future George Eliot) to London to edit the ‘œReview”. Her arrival caused rows in the household, which included Chapman’™s wife and also his mistress.The Strand was packed with booksellers, magazine publishers, theatres, clubs and quack doctors. Just behind lay the brothels of Covent Garden and the disreputable pornographers of Holywell Street, while Westminster and the Houses of Parliament were a short distance away. Chapman’™s circle touched all these worlds, and the vivid story of these unconventional lives and unorthodox views – wondrously told by Rosemary Ashton – takes us to the heart of Victorian culture, uncovering its surprising energy, its doubts and arguments, and, above all, its passionate reforming spirit.

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