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...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Inchbald
It was collected in 1810 in The Artist: A Collection of Essays relative to Painting, Poetry, Sculpture, Architecture, the Drama, Discoveries of Science and Various Other Subjects, published by John Murray
.
Nachumi, Nora. “’Those Simple Signs’: The Performance of Emotion in Elizabeth Inchbald’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>A Simple Story</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 3, pp. 317-38.
325n27
Publishing
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ
switched to the publisher John Murray
for her fourth novel, The Householder, which was also the first for which she wrote a screenplay (for a film which appeared in 1963).
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan.
238-9
Publishing
Fanny Kemble
John Murray
bought the publication rights for the play for £450.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
48
He
presented a copy of the eighth edition (which appeared before the end of the year) to the Countess Guiccioli
on her visit...
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
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
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.
356
Biographer Sarah Lefanu
believes that she worked off in this novel some of her turbulent emotions about the close...
Publishing
Rose Macaulay
This was her last novel published by John Murray
.
Publishing
Rose Macaulay
RM
's previous publisher, John MurrayJohn Murray
, was astonished to learn of her win: she had not submitted the manuscript to him. However, he wrote her a congratulatory note, which he concluded: If at any...
Literary responses
Sarah Macnaughtan
The book's publisher, John Murray
, praised it in an advertisement in the English Review: This book, written with the brightness and humour which characterizes Miss Macnaughtan's works, will strongly appeal to all who...
Textual Production
Sarah Macnaughtan
John Murray
published a novel by SM
, The Andersons, whose first appearance in October was followed by further impressions in November and December.
Through John Murray
, SM
's My War Experiences was published posthumously by her niece Betty Keays-Young
, or Mrs. Lionel Salmon as she is called on the title-page.