John Murray

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Publishing Anna Swanwick
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...
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
Publishing Augusta Gregory
It was published in Dublin by Hodges, Figgis , and in London by John Murray .
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston.
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It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
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...
Publishing Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was working on this poem by July 1810.
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.
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She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...
Publishing 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.
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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.
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The subtitle downplays AG 's role in...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
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.
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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...
Publishing 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.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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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Texts

Murphy, Dervla. South from the Limpopo. John Murray, 1997.
Murphy, Dervla. Through Siberia by Accident. John Murray, 2005.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. Storm Bird. John Murray, 1929.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. The Shoreless Sea. John Murray, 1923.
Peck, Winifred. Twelve Birthdays. John Murray, 1918.
Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. The Arctic Expeditions. John Murray, 1818.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. The Veils. John Murray, 1815.
Renault, Mary. Funeral Games. John Murray, 1981.
Ridler, Anne. Olive Willis and Downe House. John Murray, 1967.
Rigby, Elizabeth. A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic. John Murray, 1841.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Livonian Tales. John Murray, 1846.
Rigby, Elizabeth, and Charles Lock Eastlake. “Memoir”. Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts: Second Series, John Murray, 1870, pp. 1-196.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray, 1880.
Brandl, Alois. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School. Translator Rigby, Elizabeth, John Murray, 1887.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919.
Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray, 1965.
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.
Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace,. Mechanism of the Heavens. Translator Somerville, Mary, John Murray, 1831.
Somerville, Mary. On Molecular and Microscopic Science. John Murray, 1869.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, John Murray, 1873.