John Murray

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Textual Production George Egerton
In a letter written to her second husband on 16 August 1906, GE mentions an autobiography which she was writing for publication but which never appeared: I think if it were finished, Murray or someone...
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...
Textual Production Isabella Ormston Ford
The novel in book form, published by John Murray , appeared by 15 October, this time under IOF 's full name.
“19th Century British Library Newspapers”. Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers.
16388 (15 October 1890): 3
“19th Century British Library Newspapers”. Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers.
20706 (18 November 1890): 4
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
John Murray published Sir William Gregory : An Autobiography, edited by AG two years after her husband's death.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum.
97
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston.
21
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.
22
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 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.
23
The subtitle downplays AG 's role in...
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.
26
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.
24
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Felicia Hemans
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.
277
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
87
Publishing Felicia Hemans
Murray paid her £70 for the copyright.
Feldman, Paula R. “The Poet and the Profits: Felicia Hemans and the Literary Marketplace”. Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol.
46
, pp. 148-76.
152
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
Appreciation of FH was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott and Byron , in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray , her own publisher)...
Publishing Felicia Hemans
The volume cost nine shillings and sixpence, and when the edition of 1,000 sold out, FH 's share of the profits split with John Murray was £66. According to recent editors of the text, the...
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...
Textual Production John Oliver Hobbes
John Murray published a volume entitled The Life of John Oliver Hobbes : Told in Her Correspondence with Numerous Friends.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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...

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Gregory, Sir William Henry. Sir William Gregory. Editor Gregory, Augusta, John Murray, 1894.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray, 1950.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1853-1891. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray, 1952.
Hemans, Felicia. Modern Greece. John Murray, 1817.
Hemans, Felicia. Tales and Historic Scenes, in Verse. John Murray, 1819.
Hemans, Felicia. Tales and Historic Scenes, in Verse. John Murray, 1824.
Hemans, Felicia. The Forest Sanctuary. John Murray, 1825.
Hemans, Felicia. The Sceptic. John Murray, 1820.
Hemans, Felicia. The Siege of Valencia. John Murray, 1823.
Hemans, Felicia. The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray, 1823.
Herschel, Mary Cornwallis, editor. Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel. John Murray, 1876.
Holford, Margaret. Margaret of Anjou. John Murray, 1816.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. “Introduction”. Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to Her Family, 1839-1863, edited by Leonard Huxley, John Murray, 1924, p. v - xv.
Inchbald, Elizabeth, and Prince Hoare. “To the Artist”. The Artist, John Murray, 1810.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. A Backward Place. John Murray, 1965.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. A New Dominion. John Murray, 1972.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. A Stronger Climate: Nine Stories. John Murray, 1968.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. An Experience of India. John Murray, 1971.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. East into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi. John Murray, 1998.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Get Ready for Battle. John Murray, 1962.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust. John Murray, 1975.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. How I Became a Holy Mother, and Other Stories. John Murray, 1976.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. In Search of Love and Beauty. John Murray, 1983.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Like Birds, Like Fishes, and Other Stories. John Murray, 1963.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Poet and Dancer. John Murray, 1993.