She had made the first draft of these translations in 1835, to get over her loneliness after the marriage of her sister Mary. She revised them after her eight months in Berlin, and submitted...
Publishing
Lady Caroline Lamb
According to her own account, LCL
wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence...
Publishing
Lady Caroline Lamb
An odd spin-off from LCL
's desire to make herself into a professional writer was her project for a pocket diary or almanac. These ephemeral publications were repositories of useful information of many kinds as...
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Mary Somerville
As was normal practice for scientific texts at the time, MS
had canvassed a number of her learned friends for aid in preparing and proofreading her manuscript. Lord Brougham
, Michael Faraday
, James Forbes
Publishing
Naomi Mitchison
NM
says this book came out at white heat and, what is more, I wrote all the best bits, the juicy bits, first, all the bits that were most exciting and satisfying to write, like...
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Lady Charlotte Bury
It is in large format from John Murray
, illustrated with engravings from drawings by the author's late husband
, and dedicated to the queen
. Subscribers included most of the British royal family, the...
Gregory, Augusta. Poets and Dreamers. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing
Harriet Lee
John Murray
paid HL
£300 in probably 1822 for the copyright of the Canterbury Tales; but he made a loss, for sales of his re-issue did not cover his printing expenses, let alone the...
Publishing
Jane Austen
She kept the copyright in her own hands, rejecting Egerton
's offer for it—probably the lowish one of £150. He produced this novel rather cheaply, on thinner paper with more lines to the page than...
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
1: 91
She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...
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Augusta Gregory
It appeared in a limited edition of 200 copies.
Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, pp. 1-12.
5
The following year it was published by John Murray
in London and Scribner
in New York.
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston.
She used the firm of John Murray
, who remained her regular publisher until 1912.
Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana.
356
Biographer Sarah Lefanu
believes that she worked off in this novel some of her turbulent emotions about the close...
Publishing
Jane Austen
After this JA
began negotiations with Murray
through her brother Henry. Murray offered £450 for the combined copyrights of Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Emma. This offer was indignantly rejected, though...
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Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS
was bitterly disappointed when both Heinemann
and John Murray
rejected her Elizabethan novel, Ulalia; it remained unpublished, but she always considered it one of her best works.
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
45
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
Publishing
Augusta Gregory
The play was published in 1916 by John Murray
in London and by Putnam
's in New York.
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston.
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Rose, George Henry, editor. Papers of the Earls of Marchmont. John Murray, 1831.
Rose, George Henry. “The Preface and The Defence of Patrick Earl of Marchmont”. A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont, in the possession of the Right Hon. Sir George Henry Rose, John Murray, 1831, p. 1: vii - cxxxii.
Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
Ross, Janet. Three Generations of Englishwomen. John Murray, 1888.
Routley, Erik. Hymns and Human Life. John Murray, 1959.
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Somerville, Mary. On Molecular and Microscopic Science. John Murray, 1869.
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