259:(1841) which alleged that Chappellsmith had left her husband and embarked upon a series of affairs with socialist men. However, her detractors, in particular the editor, John Brindley, were rather disappointed to discover (after fully investigating Chappellsmith's private life) that she had but one man in her life, John Chappellsmith, to whom she had been happily married since 1839. John Chappellsmith fully supported his wife's activities and politics and assisted at her lectures. In 1842 Margaret Chappellsmith, who was also an active member of the Anti-Persecution Union, opened a bookshop in London and appears to have given up lecturing shortly afterwards.
361:, July 16, 1816). Perhaps more tellingly, she once explained to Robert Owen that she refused to forgive her sister for the way she had behaved towards a potential suitor many years previously until she demonstrated signs of 'self-reproach', hoping that this would induce her to a 'careful examination' of her feelings. Such inflexibility perhaps helps to explain Chappellsmith's difficulty in finding happiness in a foreign culture. Indeed, accounts of Chappellsmith from the latter part of her life suggest a somewhat embittered and eccentric personality. Nevertheless, she remained at New Harmony until her death there in February 1883.
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283:, taking only 43 days to travel to "the bank of the Mississippi". They were accompanied by other members of their family, perhaps to join one of Margaret's sisters who had earlier emigrated there. In America, Chappellsmith returned to journalism, contributing articles on a wide variety of subjects to the
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Chappellsmith's lectures during the peak years of the
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and by 1839 she was working as a salaried lecturer for the movement. In this capacity she enjoyed huge success. Numerous reports to the
Owenite press testified that she was one of the most popular speakers on the socialist circuit, frequently drawing huge crowds to her lectures. She was evidently a
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Chappellsmiths were disillusioned by the political and religious atmosphere they found at New Harmony. In particular, Margaret Chappellsmith was aggrieved by what she considered to be Owen's conversion to religion and his pragmatic stance on
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took "much pleasure in giving it insertion," with a hope of "being favoured with any future communications of the authoress." This letter appears to be the earliest of Miss
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together, for example (although the waltz was earlier regarded by many religious leaders as vulgar and sinful, described as an obscene display "confined to prostitutes and adulteresses" in the
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