She had started it on her previous birthday, 12 June 1838. John Murray
had solicited a novel from her—which would have been the first his firm
had published since Scott
—only to reject it when...
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Anna Eliza Bray
Publisher John Murray
rejected the manuscript, but it was soon accepted by Longmans
, with an agreement that gave the author and her husband half the profits after publishing expenses were covered. Longmans then delayed...
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Fanny Kemble
John Murray
bought the publication rights for the play for £450.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
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He
presented a copy of the eighth edition (which appeared before the end of the year) to the Countess Guiccioli
on her visit...
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Harriet Martineau
Again John Murray
reneged, at an advanced stage, on the arrangement for his firm
to publish the book, so HM
turned to Moxon
. Its earnings during the first year following publication paid for her...
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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...
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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...
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Jane Austen
JA
wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child.
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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She published it as a Lady: the only one issued this way, since later...
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Louisa Anne Meredith
This book was one of Murray
's Home and Colonial Library series.
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.
In the preface LAM
explains that her motive for writing was to convey to her friends in England her impressions of the nature...
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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...
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Anna Swanwick
She had made the first draft of these translations in 1835, to get over her loneliness after the marriage of her sister Mary. She revised them after her eight months in Berlin, and submitted...
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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...
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Mary Somerville
As was normal practice for scientific texts at the time, MS
had canvassed a number of her learned friends for aid in preparing and proofreading her manuscript. Lord Brougham
, Michael Faraday
, James Forbes
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Naomi Mitchison
NM
says this book came out at white heat and, what is more, I wrote all the best bits, the juicy bits, first, all the bits that were most exciting and satisfying to write, like...
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Lady Charlotte Bury
It is in large format from John Murray
, illustrated with engravings from drawings by the author's late husband
, and dedicated to the queen
. Subscribers included most of the British royal family, the...