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rejected her Elizabethan novel, Ulalia; it remained unpublished, but she always considered it one of her best works.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
Elizabeth Rigby
She translated many works, though her nephew Charles Eastlake Smith
wrongly credits her with Franz Kugler
's Handbook of Painting: The Schools of Painting in Italy (two volumes, 1851), which her husband
edited. Most library...
Publishing
Elizabeth Rigby
The book's many illustrations were by her own hand. Publisher John Murray
paid her £100 for the copyright. A second edition appeared with the title Letters from the Shores of the Baltic. This text...
Material Conditions of Writing
Elizabeth Rigby
The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher
's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray.
vi
This presumably refers to...
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Elizabeth Rigby
Her letters detailing her collaboration with Brandl show that she found him very charming. Her inclination to subject his work to heavy editing (it will prove too clever for our English public, she thought)...
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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...
Publishing
Mary Renault
With its British publication in February 1979, she moved from Allen Lane
to a publishing firm new for her, John Murray
. She valued them for having been Byron's publishers, and for being a family...
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Eleanor Anne Porden
EAP
was projecting an essay periodical in 1815 (she had the first two numbers planned) when this long poem, written at sixteen, appeared. At about the same time she was reading Wordsworth'sRecluse and poems...
Textual Production
Eleanor Anne Porden
EAP
claimed that for some years my mind has dwelt with peculiar interest on the possibility of reaching the Pole.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. The Arctic Expeditions. John Murray.
prelims
The catalyst for her writing was her visit to see the ships. The Arctic...
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George Paston
GP
published At John Murray
's: Records of a Literary Circle, 1843-1892, with preface by Lord Ernle
(reprinted in 1952).
The book was translated into French and was pirated in the U.S. in 1865 as Georgy Sandon; or , A Lost Love, AO
's original choice of title. One American edition appeared with the...
Publishing
Caroline Norton
CN
's poem A Voice from the Factories was accepted for publication by John Murray
; it appeared anonymously that year.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby.
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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...
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Dervla Murphy
DM
published with John Murray
her book about Romania, Transylvania and Beyond.
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.
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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.
