John Murray

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Publishing Dorothy Whipple
She decided to write this one in preference to a different potential novel which was also pressing to be written. She made two false starts before she could feel the story was launched. For use...
Publishing Isabella Bird
IB submitted to her publisher a sizable part of the manuscript of what would become The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray.
80-2
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 29, 33
Publishing Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan , Heinemann (where the managing director told her to bring it back if...
Publishing Felicia Hemans
By June 1821 FH had begun working on a five-act tragedy, The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray gave her 200 guineas for the copyright in November 1823 .
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315.
49, 51, 69
The Vespers of...
Publishing Sarah Macnaughtan
The book saw many editions and reprints: from Dodd, Mead and Co. (New York) and Heinemann in 1906 and 1907, John Murray and T. Nelson and Sons in 1908, Murray again in 1910, 1915, and...
Publishing Isabella Bird
Her finished manuscript was submitted to London publisher John Murray , who had published other travel writers. Murray accepted this book, altered its title from the proposed The Car and the Steamboat to The Englishwoman...
Publishing Elizabeth De la Pasture
Peter's Mother was first adapted for the stage, as a three-act comedy which reached print in 1910 and which meanwhile, in 1906, had a royal command performance at the royal estate of Sandringham in Norfolk...
Publishing Harriette Wilson
In about 1822 HW composed a work she called Sketches in the Round Room at the Opera House (a kind of dry run for her Memoirs), which depicts her former lovers under disguised names:...
Publishing Sarah Macnaughtan
It was published by W. Heinemann , with a reissue by John Murray in the same year. Cheap, popular editions were issued by T. Nelson and Sons in 1909, 1910, and 1930.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Lucie Duff Gordon
Though LDG only earned a £50 translation fee from her publisher, John Murray , her work was very successful and ran to three editions before the year's end.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton.
124
Publishing Freya Stark
The interest of another publisher in FS 's writing, together with excellent sales, prompted John Murray to renegotiate her royalties and to reprint Baghdad Sketches in 1937.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
184, 195-6
Northwestern University Press released another edition...
Publishing Margaret Holford
The poem was part-finished at the beginning of the year.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
2: 545, 546
Like Holford's previous book it is dedicated to her mother , from whom, she writes, she imbibed and inherited the taste which...
Publishing Sarah Macnaughtan
Those who published the book in 1908 included Thomas Nelson and Sons and John Murray . E. P. Dutton put out a US edition in July of that year.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Caroline Bowles
She sent the manuscript to Robert Southey , hoping the Poet Laureate would provide some instruction or advice on publication. He tried to secure Bowles a publisher but the one he tried first, John Murray
Material Conditions of Writing Ann Bridge
Susan Lowndes (daughter of novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes and so grand-daughter of suffragist Bessie Rayner Parkes ) was an old friend of AB and was resident in Portugal with her Portuguese husband. The two of...

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