John Murray
published MC
's family memoir, Under One Roof: A Family Record.
Cholmondeley, Mary. Under One Roof. John Murray.
prelims
Textual Production
Felicia Hemans
FH
published anonymously, through John Murray
, Modern Greece, A Poem.
Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
43 (1817): 453
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
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Textual Production
Mary Cholmondeley
MC
's final work to appear in print, a collection of short stories entitled The Romance of His Life, and Other Romances, was published by John Murray
. She dedicated the work to her friend Percy Lubbock
.
John Murray
published FH
's The Siege of Valencia, A Dramatic Poem; The Last Constantine, With Other Poems.
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press.
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Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
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Jane Austen
The volume also included her brother Henry's Biographical Notice. Murray
published a cheaply-produced edition of 1,750 copies, retailing at £1.4s. Though the edition did not sell out, it earned JA
's estate £518.6s.5d.
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press.
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Textual Production
Mary Cholmondeley
John Murray
published two collections of both original and previously published short stories by MC
: The Lowest Rung (1908, published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Co.
as The Hand on the...
Textual Production
Freya Stark
Through John Murray
, FS
published an account of her initial impressions of her first trip to the Middle East in Letters from Syria.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
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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.
John Murray
was apparently planning a collected edition of JA
's novels in 1831, when Cassandra Austen
wrote on 20 May with detailed queries about it, but the project did not go through. A year...
Textual Production
Caroline Norton
CN
published, for private circulation, a pamphlet entitled Observations on the Natural Claim of the Mother to the Custody of her Infant Children, as affected by the Common Law Right of the Father.
Chedzoy...
Textual Production
Sarah Macnaughtan
The first of SM
's four nonfictional works, Us Four, a bildungsroman and memoir of her childhood, was published by John Murray
in London.
“Mr. Murray’s New Books”. The English Review, p. viii.
This volume covers the years 1928-33, during which FS
established her reputation both as a traveller (winning the Back Memorial Grant of the Royal Geographical Society
and the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Textual Features
Charlotte Riddell
The protagonist has an invalid mother. She takes disappointments and setbacks bravely, tramping round one publisher's office after another. Her eventual success brings her the happiness of her own (unshared) country cottage.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The novel includes...
Textual Features
Maria Callcott
After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC
) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray
. She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge
,...
Reception
Harriette Wilson
Contemporary admirers of HW
on literary grounds included Walter Scott
, who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton.
