ABSTRACT
'Woman in France' marks the beginning of the second phase of George Eliot's association with the Westminster. In the spring of 1854 she had given up her editorship of the review, and in July went off to the Continent with Lewes to begin her new life with him. On 5 August 1854, while they were in Weimar, George Eliot noted in her Journal 'a letter from Mr. Chapman, proposing to me to write an art. on Victor Cousin's Mde. de Sable'. The commission was a tangible sign of Chapman's genuine good will towards his former editor, even in her new circumstances, and led to the series of articles and reviews for the Westminster in the next two years. The record of her Journal shows that she worked on the article from the time of her receiving Chapman's letter until 8 September 1854, when she wrote: 'Sent off my article on Mme. de Sable.'
