Eliot Was An Editor Of Westminster Review

George Eliot moved to London in 1850 to pursue his goal of becoming a writer. Eliot contributed essays and reviews under the pen name Marian Evans in the early 1850s to The Westminster Review, a London-based publication established by the philosophers Jeremy Bentham and James Mill. Her publisher at Rosehill, John Chapman, established the left-leaning publication The Westminster Review. Eliot thus took on the role as his assistant editor. Though her position was anonymous, she quickly rose to the position of de facto editor for the progressive publication. Years later, in the journal she had formerly edited, other authors evaluated Eliot's own works under aliases.

In the aforementioned journal, Eliot started sharing her personal opinions about the political and social circumstances in the society she lived in. She advocated for women, the working class, and other modern causes, many of which were based on her personal life. She gradually displayed her political leanings, switching from reformist to revolutionary. Although Chapman seems to be the editor due to her involvement with the Westminster Review, George Eliot has really held the position of the de facto editor of The Westminster Review.